Universität Wien

170553 UE The Color of Sex: Race, Sex and Gender in Visual Culture (2016S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 17 - Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

German
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. 35 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

German

  • Saturday 18.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum 3 2H467 UZA II Rotunde
  • Sunday 19.06. 11:30 - 18:15 Seminarraum 3 2H467 UZA II Rotunde
  • Saturday 25.06. 09:45 - 16:30 Seminarraum 3 2H467 UZA II Rotunde
  • Sunday 26.06. 09:45 - 16:30 Seminarraum 3 2H467 UZA II Rotunde

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The class starts with a section on photography in anthropological and ethnographic discourses. It will continue with narrative film and an analysis of how whiteness and heterosexuality have been privileged in Hollywood cinema and popular media. We will further examine the colonial gaze upon the Other; and strategies of decolonizing the screen both in a transnational context and the US. Finally the course explores artistic counter strategies of provocation, queering and desidentification, including reflections on how critical theory and art relate to each other.
The aim of the course is to delineate the construction as well as the deconstruction of race, gender and sexuality in visual culture, including photography, popular film and television and art.

Assessment and permitted materials

Summaries of the literature of the class that are not part of the grading.
Grading: papers of about 10 pages (80%), short oral presentation (20%)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Summaries of the literature of the class.
Grading: papers of about 10 pages (80%), short oral presentation (20%)

Examination topics

Literature of the seminar, most of them available in English.

Reading list

Malin, Brenton J., The New Hypersensitive Killers: Viv Mackay and Tony Soprano; In American Masculinity under Clinton: Popular Media and the nineties, Crisis of Masculinity;. 171-186. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

Jane Feuer: Melodrama, Serienform und Fernsehen heute, in: Frauen und Film, Heft 42, S. 12-24.

Gayatri Gopinath (2005): Nostalgie, Begehren, Diaspora: Südasiatische Sexualitäten in Bewegung, in: Matthias Haase/ Marc Siegel/ Michaela Wünsch (Hg.): Outside. Die Politik queerer Räume. Berlin: bbooks, S. 191-215.

Patrick E. Johnson (2003): Manifest Faggotry: Queering Masculinity in African American Culture; In Appropriating Blackness. Performance and the Politics of Authenticity. 48-76.
Durham/London: Duke UP.

Kobena Mercer: Das Skinhead-Sex-Ding. Rassische Differenz und das homoerotische Imaginäre. In: Texte zur Kunst, Dezember 1992, S. 117-135.

José Munoz: Photographies of Mourning: Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van DerZee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston, in: Harry Stecopoulos/ Michael Uebel: Race and the Subject of Masculinities. Durham/London 1999, S. 337-361.

Mason Stokes (2001): Becoming Visible: I'm White, Therefore I'm Anxious, in: Ders.: The Color of Sex. Whiteness, Heterosexuality, & the Fictions of White Supremacy. Durham/London: Duke University Press, S. 158-178

Clyde Taylor (1996): The Re-Birth of the Aesthetic in Cinema, in: Daniel Bernardi (Ed.): The Birth of Whiteness. Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, S. 15-38.

Linda Williams: Melodrama Revised, in: Nick Browne (Hg.): Refiguring American Film Genres: History and Theory. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of Calif. Press 1998, S. 42-88. (62-88)

David Zurawik. Too-Jewish/Not-Jewish-Enough. Seinfeld; In The Jews of Primetime, 201-218. Lebanon, NH: University of New England Press, 2003.

Association in the course directory

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