SOC467 Visual Sociology: Art, Image, & Media

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2007
Rozsah
1/1/0. 10 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Laura Anne Bunt, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Rozvrh
St 14:00–15:40 AVC
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Everyday life in contemporary society is characterized by a constant flow of images. On billboards, TVs, subways, and buses; in magazines, newspapers, emails, and airport terminals; the fast-paced production of images has revolutionized the way we communicate with and influence one another. At the same time, a well-established tradition of looking at objects and images in museums, galleries, and movie theaters encourages us to slow down the pace of life and to reflect on the meaning and value of images. Occasionally we may even find ourselves gazing at photographs, paintings, buildings, or other people for the simple pleasure of seeing. But rarely do we stand back from our visual experience and ask how this visual culture works and how it affects the way we think and interact with one another. This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of Visual Studies. Using the transition from an industrialized modern to an electronic postmodern society as a frame of reference, we examine and discuss a wide range of approaches to the creation and interpretation of visual experience. We consider the many ways that paintings, photographs, films, fashions, and everyday objects both shape and are shaped by the concepts, values, and meanings that constitute cultural life in contemporary urban societies. Some of the concepts covered in this course include formalism, the avant-garde, semiotics, representation, discourse, the gaze, panopticism, surveillance, power, and sexual politics. Students develop the skills necessary to write effectively about the visual world and to think productively about the creation of images and the meanings that surround them. SELECTED COURSE READINGS (AVAILABLE ON IS AND IN COURSE READER) Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright Visual Culture: The Reader by Jessica Evans & Stuart Hall (eds.) After the End of Art by Arthur Danto Symbolic Imprints: Essays on Photography and Visual Culture by Lars Kiel Bertelsen, Rune Gade, and Mette Sandbye (eds.)
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Angličtina
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