124264 KO Critical Media Analysis (2011W)

Comics as a Means of Constructing Realities.

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

It is MANDATORY for ALL STUDENTS, who have sucessfully signed up for this course, to be PRESENT at the first class session. If not students will be removed from the attendance list and their spot will be made available to other students.

Moodle

An/Abmeldung

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

Anmeldung von Fr 16.09.2011 00:00 bis So 25.09.2011 23:59
Anmeldung von Do 29.09.2011 14:00 bis Di 04.10.2011 23:59
Abmeldung bis Mo 31.10.2011 23:59

Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Ranthild Salzer

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

    
    Montag
    10.10.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    17.10.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    24.10.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    31.10.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    07.11.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    14.11.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    21.11.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    28.11.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    05.12.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    12.12.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    09.01.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    16.01.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    23.01.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Montag
    30.01.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Comics/Sequential Art produce meaning at the intersection of text and visual image. 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

Participants will be asked to give oral presentations and hand in written assignments.
There will be a written exam the end of the semester.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The course will tackle the following questions:
How do comics use specific cultural backgrounds/ information to produce meaning?
How important is the intertextual character of comics and graphic novels?
How do certain types of genre comics create and develop protagonist archetypes?
How do comics treat timportant topics , such as "identity", "the abject", "otherness" and "gender discourse"?

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.
Students will be asked to read a selection of primary texts as well as selected articles from the list of secondary literature provided.

Literatur

Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics.
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.
Morrison, Grant. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
Sacco, Joe. Palestine
Spiegelman, Art. Maus II

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612
Code/Modul: Diplom 426/428, 436/438, 526/528, 536/538, 721-723, UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33