WEEK 01: Wednesday 18 October 2006
Introductions: the module and reading/writing/online skills for critical theory research
WEEK 02: Wednesday 25 October 2006
Structuralism and Semiotics
Required reading
Cavallaro pt1 chapt 2-the sign / chapt 3-rhetoric/
chapt 5-reading/ chapt 6- textuality
Additional material> blog links for week02
WEEK 03: Wednesday 01 November 2006
Poststructuralism and semiotic analysis
Required reading
Cavallaro pt1 chap3-rhetoric / chapt2- subjectivity
Additional material> blog links for week03
WEEK 04: Wednesday 08 November 2006
NOTE
homework from week o3 to be posted to your blog by week 04, before the session
200- 400 words analysis of ‘ways of seeing episode 4- the language of advertising’ that was screened in class during session 03, referring to the following aspects of semiotic analysis:
- the distinction between signifier and signified of the sign- the transfers of signifieds between signs
- the codes that structure this transfer of signifiers
- the wider structures of meaning which are the ideologies or mythologies
- the ways of seeing that can challenge the signs, codes and ideologies and mythologies
- the social conditions and means of mechanical reproduction that are articulated through the images themselves
WEEK 04: Wednesday 11 November 2006
psychoanalysis: sexuality, gender and visual pleasure
Required reading
Cavallaro pt2 chapts 4/5/6- gender and sexuality/the other/gaze
Additional material>
daniel chandler: notes on the gaze
WEEK 05: Wednesday 15 November 2006
discourse analysis: visual culture, intertextuality and institutions
Required reading
cavallaro: pt1 chapter 6 textuality (focus: intertextuality: pp60- )
pt2 chapter 2 subjectivity (focus: foucalt and discourse pp 89-92)
Additional material> blog links
ASSIGNMENT FOR WEEK05 SESSION
Post to your blog (before session 05) a summary of Foucault’s essay ‘Panopticism’ (available online> follow link)
During class you will apply your understanding of panopticism to your own lives – you will analyse the panoptic elements of a contemporary institution (eg university campus and/ or public transport ) . Use digital camera throughout the week to document panopticism in daily life and upload photos to your blog along your own writing.
WEEK 06: Wednesday 22 November 2006
Spatial theory
Required reading
Cavallaro pt 3: chapt 3-space/ chapt 6-simulacrum
Additional material> blog links
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