124264 KO Critical Media Analysis (2015S)

Visual Pleasure and Exoticism in Film Studies

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

This course takes as its basis a critical viewing position that understands that how we see affects what we see. We apply this to the subject/object and normative/exotic binary of Hollywood film between the dominant discourse subject (construed as white and male) and the object (women, minorities, immigrants and indigenous peoples). Taking as a starting point Laura Mulveys Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Edward Saids Introduction to Orientalism, and visual theory by John Berger and Slavoj iek, the course deconstructs the Hollywood cinema representation of female and exotic characters, which we compare to how women and minority film-makers present themselves in their own cinema. Each popular, Western-mainstream film is paired with a lesser-known film to offer students other ways of seeing, for example Japanese women in Memoirs of a Geisha (Rob Marshall 2005) versus Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon 2001) and Indian poverty in Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle 2008) versus Salaam Bombay (Mira Nair 1988).

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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 09.02.2015 00:00 to Su 15.02.2015 23:59
Registration is open from Tu 24.02.2015 00:00 to Su 01.03.2015 23:59
Deregistration possible until Tu 31.03.2015 23:59

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max. 30 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Melissa Kennedy

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Thursday 19.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 26.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 16.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 23.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 30.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 07.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 21.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 28.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 11.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 18.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 25.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

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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

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