FAV052 The Virtual Window: A Cultural History from Alberti to Microsoft

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2003
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Anne Friedbergová (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The title of the lecture derives from the book that Prof. Friedberg, who has for several years now been exploring the relations between modernity, the visual and technology, has currently been finishing. The lecture will look at the cultural phenomenon of 'window' conceived as an architectonic and figurative trope in which evolutionary lines of film, television and computer tend to converge. Dates: 19. 5. - 22. 5. 2003. Ann Friedberg is a professor of film and visual studies at the University of California at Irvine. In her reputable work Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern (University of California Press 1993) she explores the cultural contexts of 'mobilized virtual gaze', the importance of which has increased in the 19. and 20. century with the spread of such visual technologies as panorama, diorama and, eventually, cinema and television, but which was also linked with the development of architecture, urbanism and consumption. Theoretical basis is provided by Walter Benjamin's work on flâneur and the passages. In addition to a series of studies, Friedberg also co-edited the anthology Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism (Princeton University Press 1998).
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: 19.5.-22.5.
General note: Podrobnějsí informace na adrese www.phil.muni.cz/divfil/fav/pozvanka_CAVK3.html. Předmět je nabízen téz studentům doktorského studia.
Credit evaluation note: 5 kreditů pro studenty PGS.
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