Universität Wien

124265 KO Critical Media Analysis (2017W)

Performing America

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 13.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 20.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 27.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Monday 30.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Friday 03.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 17.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 24.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 01.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Monday 11.12. 18:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Friday 15.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 12.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 19.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 26.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This class offers a conceptual and methodological toolkit for the critical analysis of performance. Taking cues from scholarship on the aesthetic, cultural, social, anthropological, economic, and technological dimensions of performance, we will discuss parameters such as the body, co-presence, physical movement, skill, affect, spectatorship, liveness, site-specificity, repeatability, textuality, and the archive. We will ask how close scrutiny of these parameters can facilitate an understanding of the cultural work of performance practices, as well as of their political implications.
By way of example, we will look at a select number of contemporary U.S. American performance practices (or performances of ‘America’), and ask how these performances are entangled in political struggles concerning race, gender, sexuality, class, or the nation; how these performances negotiate the particular histories and localities of their enactment; what kinds of publics these performances invoke; and finally, how these performances circulate and how they have been archived—if at all.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular attendance, active participation in class, presentation, portfolio writing assignments

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active class participation (20%)
Class presentation (20%)
Portfolio (60%)

Examination topics

n/a

Reading list

You need to buy/borrow the following book/DVD:

Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project: The Laramie Project (play, choose whichever edition you like)
Florian Flicker: No Name City: Die Freiheit liegt südlich von Wien (documentary, I recommend the STANDARD Edition #75, which has English subtitles)

Additional readings will be provided on Moodle.

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3; BEd 08a.2, BEd 08b.1
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

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