Universität Wien

124260 KO Critical Media Analysis (2017S)

The Body and Cultural Politics of Representation

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
Moodle

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 10.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 17.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 24.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 31.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 07.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 28.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 05.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 12.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 19.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 26.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 02.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 09.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 16.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 23.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 30.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this course we will consider how the body is molded in terms of a series of cultural values assigned to it. Body-oriented conceptualizing is formed out of tension between visual presentation of the body and symbolic grammar generated by culture. We will examine how social and visual images of our bodies force us to consider our identities in socially approved ways. In this context we will deploy several methodologies of cultural theories (see below) to analyze how representations structure the way we know and see bodies. This approach requires, at the same time, a focus on an analysis of power and meaning-making in production & reception of cultural texts on the body.
Centuries of predominant rationalism and dualism led to the modern Western view of the body as mostly a mere object which may be dissociated from the true being mind or soul, which were expected to control the corporeal matter and its discreditable drives. Opposing the notion of the body as a mere natural object numerous structrualist & poststructuralist theories consider bodies as a constitutive and inescapable dimension of cultural and social practices.
On the basis of developing a strong foundation in a number of approaches, students will deploy these methodologies by moving across a variety of media forms & practices (film, literature, digital media, performance art, pop-&-subculture phenomena). A major objective of the course is discover how these theoretical concepts of the body can be used as exciting tools to unlock the multiple meanings of body in an in-depth analysis of cultural texts.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Regular participation
Oral presentation (15 mins)
Short reflections
Participation in plenum discussions
Final paper

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

We will explore key-approaches in cultural theories on the body such as:
Mauss anthropological-social theory on body-techniques
Foucault's discursive theory onthe body as object of disciplinary practices; docile bodies;biopower
Psychoanalytical theory (Lacan) and the French feminist-poststructuralist response to phallo-logocentric & repressive symbolic representations of the masculine & feminine
Butler's gender- & queer theory on sex as construct and gender performativity
Postcolonial concepts of racialized bodies
(Hall - race as floating signifier; Said - Orientalized Body; Bhabha - skin as fetish)
Baudrillard's redefinition of postmodern formulations of the body
DeCertau on the role of corporality in practices of opposition, resistance and cultural creativity
Haraway on Cyborg body-politics

--> Theoretical texts will be available on moodle in the course of the semester

As regards the analysis of FILMS - LITERATURE - MEDIA
--> A LIST WILL BE PROVIDED BY END OF FEBRUARY

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426; BA07.3; BEd 08a.2, BEd 08b.1
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33