Universität Wien

124265 KO Critical Media Analysis (2024W)

Reading the Body: Representation and Stigmatization across Media

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

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Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Samstag 19.10. 08:15 - 13:15 Digital
  • Samstag 16.11. 08:15 - 13:15 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Samstag 11.01. 08:15 - 13:15 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The intrinsic paradox of having a body and being a body has been complicated by contemporary mediatization of corporeality. Embedded in consumerist, capitalist and other ideologies, the body has been used to sell products and to entertain, but also to coerce, dominate and suppress. Living in this ideologically informed media matrix, we sometimes fail to see how much bodies are constructed, reconstructed, violated and adjusted to serve a given purpose. This seminar will equip students with some necessary instruments to read, analyze and interpret contemporary media bodies.
We will look at and read about ideal, naked/nude bodies, examine sexualized and gendered bodies. We will neither strain from monstrous, mutated and mutilated bodies nor from the technologized and virtual ones. We will deal with such issues as ideology, heterosexual matrix, power relations, gaze and objectification.

By the end of term, students will have:
- familiarized themselves with and have practiced the use of select cultural studies' concepts, theories and methods
- analyzed a spectrum of media texts and acquired media-critical competences
- offered critical reflection on representations of corporeality
- practiced constructing careful arguments to make their points in the appropriate language and in a suitable format.

The class will be based on teacher's input and students' prior reading, which will enable engaged discussions, either in small groups or in a larger forum.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Regular participation in discussions; oral presentation; portfolio tasks

The teacher reserves the right to conduct a personal interview with any student whose written work has a doubtful status, in relation to plagiarism, ghost-writing or illegitimate AI-use.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

- 30 points: group presentation relating to a chosen cultural event
- 20 points: individual bibliographical/research task
- 50 points: individual portfolio to be handed in on 17 January 2025 (a 500-word critical summary of a particular topic/argument related to the work you will be analysing; a 500-word interpretation of a chosen primary source)

Marks in %:
1 (very good): 90-100%
2 (good): 80-89%
3 (satisfactory): 70-79%
4 (pass): 60-69%
5 (fail): 0-59%

Prüfungsstoff

This is an interactive course with continuous assessment ("prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung"). Students are expected to complete reading assignments, actively participate in class throughout the semester (in group activities and discussions), contribute to their group project, and hand in all assigned portfolio tasks on time.
There will be no written exam.

Literatur

Please note that this preliminary reading list is subject to change slightly until the beginning of the term. All texts will be made available on Moodle.

Texts will include a selection from:
- Dyer, Richard. "The Role of Stereotypes." Media Studies: A Reader. Ed. by Sue Thornham. 3rd ed. Edinburgh UP, 2009. pp. 206-212.
- Lupton, Deborah. Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies. 2. ed, SAGE, 2006, pp. 1-19.
- Hall, Stuart. Representation: Cultural representations and signifying practices. Sage Publications, Inc; Open University Press, 1997.
- Group 1: C. Benson-Allott, "No Such Thing Not Yet: Questioning Television's Female Gaze"; R. Looft, "#girlgaze: photography, fourth wave feminism, and social media advocacy"; I. Parkins, "Becoming in the Eyes of Others: The Relational Gaze in Boudoir Photography"; C. Jansen, "Defining the Female Gaze: What Do You See When You See a Woman?"
- Group 2: Perianes/Kissling, eds., "Transnational Engagements: Women's Experiences with Menopause"; S. Hinchliff et al., "Sex, Menopause and Social Context"; Orgad/Rottenberg, "The Menopause Moment: The Rising Visibility of 'The Change' in UK News Coverage"; D.M. Merrill, "Popular Culture and a History of Treating Menopause"
- Group 3: Stubbs/Sterling, "Learning About What's 'Down There': Body Image Below the Belt and Menstrual Education"; P. Marino, "Sexual Objectification"; L. Schroeder Haslem, "Monstrous Issues: The Uterus as Riddle in Early Modern Medical Texts"; M. Stolberg, "A women down to her bones: The anatomy of seuxal difference in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries"
- Group 4: R. Green-Cole, "Painting Blood: Visualizing Menstrual Blood in Art"; J.M. Wood, "(In)Visible Bleeding: The Menstrual Concealment Imperative"; M. Guilló-Arakistain, "Challenging Menstrual Normativity"; Bobel/Fahs, "The Messy Politics of Menstrual Activism"
- Group 5: Javie-Ajayi/Joffe, "Social Representations of Female Orgasm"; L.J. Séguin et al., "Consuming Ecstasy: Representations of Male and Female Orgasm in Mainstream Pornography"; J.A. Bakehorn, "Porn By and For Women"; Salisbury/Fisher, "'Did You Come?': A Qualitative Exploration of Gender Differences in Beliefs, Experiences, and Concerns Regarding Female Orgasm…"

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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

Letzte Änderung: Fr 18.10.2024 07:45