124262 KO Critical Media Analysis (2015S)
Between the Visual and the Verbal: Comics as a means of Constructing Realities
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Please be aware that attendance in the first session is mandatory for all registered students. If you are absent that day without being excused you will lose your seat in the course, which will be given to a student on the waiting list.
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max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- Montag 09.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Montag 16.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
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- Montag 01.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Montag 08.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Montag 15.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Montag 22.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Donnerstag 25.06. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Montag 29.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
What is the appeal of the medium comics? Can it upset traditional definitions of high and low culture and offer new modes of discourse to its readership?Whether they are called comic books, graphic novels or graphic narratives this particular visual medium offers its audiences two channels of representation: the word and the image. Comics/Sequential Art produce meaning at the intersection of text and visual image.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
In addition to the primary texts, students will also be required to read secondary materials. They will be asked to hold short presentations in class, hand in written assignments and take a final written test.
All the articles and excerpts from books will be provided online via MOODLE.
All the articles and excerpts from books will be provided online via MOODLE.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Comics and Semiotics: How do comics use specific cultural backgrounds/ information to produce meaning? How important is the intertextual character of comics and graphic? How does technology influence the production of meaning?
Comics and the Genre debate: How do certain types of genre comics, e.g. superhero comics, non-fiction comics or autobiographical comics create and develop protagonist archetypes?
Comics and History: In how far do comics use icons of cultural memory and history in order to tell about apocalyptic events of the past and future? 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?
Do graphic narratives simply reproduce hegemonic and hetero-normative ideals or do they challenge them? Do they offer a possibility for hybrid discourses?
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?
Comics and the Genre debate: How do certain types of genre comics, e.g. superhero comics, non-fiction comics or autobiographical comics create and develop protagonist archetypes?
Comics and History: In how far do comics use icons of cultural memory and history in order to tell about apocalyptic events of the past and future? 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?
Do graphic narratives simply reproduce hegemonic and hetero-normative ideals or do they challenge them? Do they offer a possibility for hybrid discourses?
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?
Prüfungsstoff
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. Analytical approaches will be based on identity theories, semiotics, gender studies and social studies.
Literatur
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home.
Alan Moore, The Killing Joke.
Grant Morrison, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
Joe Sacco, Palestine.
Art Spielgelmann, Maus, Part 2.
Alan Moore, The Killing Joke.
Grant Morrison, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
Joe Sacco, Palestine.
Art Spielgelmann, Maus, Part 2.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Studium: UF 344, BA 612, BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3; BEd 08a.2, BEd 08b.1
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3; BEd 08a.2, BEd 08b.1
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260
Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22