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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Cultural Studies-Individual Graduate Prog.
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Norma Musih
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Norma Musih
Course/Module description:
What is the relationship between a map, a photograph of the earth from the moon and the structure of a prison? They are all subjects of visual culture research. Visual culture is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge that asks questions about visuality and the possibilities of understanding the world through visual means. At the same time, visual culture is also a form of comparative interpretation and a methodology of research.
In this course, we will learn about the history of visual culture and explore visual culture methodologies by asking questions about the production, reproduction and circulation of images. Following W. J. T. Mitchell understanding of image’s iconology, we will focus our attention on the lives and passions of images, and we will seek to understand the power they exercise. We will develop “ways of seeing” as John Berger formulated it and will learn following the pioneering work of feminist scholar Laura Mulvey how the masculine gaze in film was embodied by spectators both male and female. Furthermore, following the work of Michael Foucault we will learn about gaze regimes: what can be seen (and what cannot be seen) and from which perspectives we do it. Finally, we will discuss “the right to see”: visuality
Course/Module aims:
This course will provide students with a broad historical and contemporary understanding of theories in the field of visual culture and will allow students to experiment with methodological practices of visual culture research.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Successfully explain the main theories in the field of visual culture research and place them in their historical and cultural contexts and engage with them.
Compare different visual theories in order to assess similarities and differences between them.
Critically analyze visual culture artifacts and performances in light of the theories learned in the course.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures and class discussions based on students writing prompts
Course/Module Content:
1. What is visual culture? Introduction to the course and the syllabus
2. What is an image?
3. Ways of Seeing and ways of looking
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4. Watching wars and framing atrocities.
5. Seeing Citizenship
6. Images as icons
7. The gaze that embodies power: between surveillance, care and control.
8. Seeing like a state
9. Seeing the everyday
10. Seeing bodies: on gender and visual culture
11. Counter looking: on the right lo look.
12. Seeing in a digital world.
Required Reading:
1. Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
2. Mitchell, W. J. T. “What Is an Image?” New Literary History 15, no. 3 (1984): 503–37.
3. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More. Illustrated edition. New York: Basic Books, 2016, pp 71-96.
4. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality. Duke University Press, 2011, pp 48-76.
5. Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998, 83-53.
6. אזולאי, אריאלה. "צילום ". מפתח – כתב עת לקסיקלי למחשבה פוליטי .
. 7. אזולאי, אריאלה .האמנה האזרחית של הצילום .פטיש. תל-אביב: רסלינג, 2006 , ע"מ 7-29 ו ע"מ 95-136
8. בנימין, ולטר .יצירת האמנות בעדן השעתוק הטכני .טעמים: מבחר כתבי- מופת באסתטיקה. תל-אביב: ספרית
. פועלים; הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, ספרית פועלים, 1983
. 9. דה סרטו, מישל .המצאת היומיום: אמנויות העשייה .הסדרה לפילוסופיה. תל-אביב: רסלינג, 2012
10 . מאלווי לורה. עונג חזותי וקולנוע נרטיבי [ 1975 ] מתוך ללמוד פמיניזם: מקראה : מאמרים ומסמכי יסוד
. במחשבה פמיניסטית .מגדרים. תל- אביב: הקבוץ המאוחד, 2006
. 11 . פוקו, מישל .לפקח ולהעניש: הולדת בית הסוהר .הסדרה לפילוסופיה. תל-אביב: רסלינג, 2015
12 . סונטג, סוזן .להתבונן בסבלם של אחרים .בן-שמן: מודן, 2005
13 . רובינשטיין דניאל. " דימוי דיגיטלי" , מפתח – כתב עת לקסיקלי למחשבה פוליטית.
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 100 %
see below
Additional information:
Course Evaluation:
1. Submission of written responses to the assigned texts for the day before class through Moodle system [minimum of 5 responses]. The response must include a quote from the text, an image that expands or questions the meaning of the quoted text and a paragraph in which you explain what is the relationship between the quote and the image, why is it interesting, how the quote expands the image, etc. [20%].
2. Submission of an outline for the final project. The outline must include a description of the phenomenon or object you will analyze and a short literature review. This assignment is due by 30/05/2023 [10%].
3. Project presentation in class. Due by 27/06/2023 [5%].
4. Writing of two short feedbacks to other student's presentations [to be sent the day after the presentation to the student by e-mail with cc to me] [5%].
5. Submission of final project [60%].
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