124260 KO Critical Media Analysis (2022W)

Filming Refugees - Gender, Mobility & Barbed Wire

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Mo 05.09.2022 00:00 to Mo 19.09.2022 08:00
Deregistration possible until Mo 31.10.2022 23:59

Details

max. 27 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Matthew Leroy

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Note: Several classes will take place online. We will discuss that in the first class.

    
    Wednesday
    05.10.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    12.10.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    19.10.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    09.11.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    16.11.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    23.11.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    30.11.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    07.12.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    14.12.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    11.01.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    18.01.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Wednesday
    25.01.
    18:15 - 19:45
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Popular culture has often been marked by the absence of marginalized groups. However, those on the periphery have slowly come into view since the refugee “crisis” in 2015.

This course shall examine the representations of refugees in both fictional and non-fictional film. Issues of note will be the recent war in the Ukraine, the over-representation of male refugees in the media in 2015, reactions and counter-reactions to the arrival of refugees as well as a comparison of filmic representations of refugees in different eras. Films will include: Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time (2017), Into the Fire: The Hidden Victims of Austerity in Greece (2013), District 9 (2009), The Land Between (2014) and others.

Students will learn technical film terminology as well as how to apply film analysis as a tool for their future studies. The course will boast an interactive, pragmatic approach that emphasises practical skills that can be used by the students in their academic and professional careers.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular participation in discussions
Oral presentation
Short reflections
Final paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Weekly Feedback & Discussion - 24%
Presentation - 25%
Written paper - 51%

Examination topics

Reading list

Bill Ashcroft (2019) Borders, Bordering, and the Transnation, English Academy Review, 36:1, 5-19, DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2019.1584261

Boochani, Behrouz. 2018. No Friend But the Mountains. Translated by Omid Tofighian. Sydney: Picador. [Google Scholar]

Cooper, Samantha, Erin Olejniczak, Caroline Lenette, and Charlotte Smedley. 2017. “Media Coverage of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Regional Australia: A Critical Discourse Analysis.” Media International Australia 162 (1): 78–89

Holman, Zoe. 2020. “Australia Has Engineered New Levels of Border Cruelty – and Exported Them to Europe.” Jacobin. 13 December. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/australia-border-cruelty-europe-asylum-seekers-human-rights.

Huntington, Samuel P. “Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite.” The National Interest, no. 75, 2004, pp. 5–18. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42897520. Accessed 2 Sep. 2022.

Klocker, Natascha, and Kevin M. Dunn. 2016. “Who’s Driving the Asylum Debate? Newspaper and Government Representations of Asylum Seekers.” Media International Australia, November.

Perara, Suvendrini. 2009. Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Association in the course directory

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

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