124262 KO Critical Media Analysis (2013W)

Between the visual and the verbal: Comics as a means of contructing realities

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Dear Students!
Please take note that attendance in the first session is OBLIGATORY for all properly registered students.
Students, who are absent without excuse will lose their place in the class that will then be given to other students.

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Anmeldung von Mo 16.09.2013 00:00 bis So 22.09.2013 23:59
Anmeldung von Mi 25.09.2013 00:00 bis Mi 02.10.2013 23:59
Abmeldung bis Do 31.10.2013 23:59

Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Ranthild Salzer

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

    
    Mittwoch
    09.10.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
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    16.10.
    10:00 - 12:00
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    23.10.
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Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Whether you call it comic books, graphic novels or graphic narratives this visual medium offers its audiences two channels of representaion: the word and the image.

Comics or Sequential Art produce meaning at the intersection of text and visual image. Because of their high specificity, they are especially well-suited for developing analytical skills regarding medium-specific modes of meaning production. So what are these specific mechanisms and images, and how do comics use them in order to invade our daily realities and construct their own?

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Students are required to read all the texts from the primary reading list.
They will also be asked to read selected articles from a list of secondary literature, which will be available to them via MOODLE.
They will have to hand in written assignments and will be asked to hold oral presentations.
At the end of the semester a compulsory written test will take place.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

During this course students will receive an introduction into various genres of anglophone comics and critically discuss and analyze the realities mediated and constructed in these comics.

Prüfungsstoff

This CMA course will tackle the following questions:

Comics and Semiotics: How do comics use specific cultural ideology/ information to produce meaning?

Comics and the Genre debate: Which genres are easy, which are hard to find in the realm of the medium?

Comics and politics: How does sequential art comment on current global events and political movements, and does it offer its practitioners means of doing so that are inaccessible to other media?

Comics and the Body: Which gender discourses do comics reproduce? Do they offer alternative gender realities? Do they dismantle gender barriers or do they simply reinstate them?

Literatur

Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home.
Miller, Frank. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
Morrison, Grant. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
Sacco, Joe. Palestine.
Spiegelmann, Art. Maus Part 2.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, BA 612
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22