Universität Wien

124070 VO Culture, Society and the Media (2022W)

Trauma, Traumatization and Popular Cultures

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
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Details

Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Dear Students,

As of now the plan is that this lecture will be ON SITE and IN PERSON. If the Covid 19 situation changes, so will the conditions of this lecture series.
Please keep this in mind.

  • Mittwoch 05.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Mittwoch 12.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Freitag 28.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Mittwoch 09.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Mittwoch 16.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Dienstag 22.11. 20:00 - 22:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 23.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Audimax Zentrum für Translationswissenschaft, Gymnasiumstraße 50
    Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Mittwoch 30.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Digital
  • Mittwoch 07.12. 18:30 - 20:00 Digital
  • Mittwoch 14.12. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 11.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Mittwoch 18.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Since the late 1980s, trauma from being merely a psychiatric category has turned into a cultural phenomenon in its own right.
Concepts like personal, collective and cultural trauma are ubiquitous the days and for good reasons. Kirby Farrell, for instance, speaks of current Western cultures as post-traumatic cultures and argues that trauma in the Western world is nowadays as strong a trope as the world as stage was during Renaissance times.Taking examples from Film, TV and Comics this lecture highlights and points out how trauma and traumatization turn from psychological and psychoanalytical concepts into socio-cultural and narrative tropes found in different media texts.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

The were be a written exam. Written Exam (25% Multiple Choice, 25% concept/definition related, 50% essay, ca. 500 words)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

All content covered in the lecture series will be relevant for the final exam, which will count for the entirety of the participant's grade. The benchmark for passing the exam is at 60%.
Grades in %:
1 (very good): 90-100
2 (good): 80-89
3 (satisfactory): 70-79
4 (pass): 60-69
5 (fail): 0-59

Prüfungsstoff

entire lecture content incl. lecture slides and obligatory course reading.

Next to more theory-heavy texts by Freud, Lacan and others; this lecture series will cover different media texts (Film, Comics, TV shows) and how these texts depict and construct traumatization.

All texts will be covered in our weekly sessions.
There will be a few weekly readings.

Literatur

Films/TV-Shows:
Spellbound (Hitchcock, 1945)
Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)

Comic Books:
Maus (Art Spiegelman, 1986/1992)
Incognegro (Johnson/Pleece, 2008)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: BA 612, EC 125, EC 126; BEd 046
Code/Modul: BA07.1, EC Cultural and Regional Studies 1; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-4070

Letzte Änderung: Do 11.05.2023 11:27