WEEK 04: Wednesday 11 November 2006
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, refering 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 themselveshelpful links
John Berger: Ways of Seeing -episode 4: Language of Advertising
except from John Berger’s Ways of Seeing (episode 4, shown in class) , put out by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1972.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jsa3/hum355/readings/berger.htmJohn Berger: Ways of Seeing (the book)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ways-Seeing-John-Berger/dp/0140135154
WEEK 04:
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
specially recommended for those researching on moving/still image
maria walsh: against fetishism- the moving quiescence of life 24 frames a second
availalable at harrow campus library
cinematic non-linearity in Söke Dinkla: Virtual Narrations From the crisis of storytelling to new narration as mental potentiality
sarah rosenbaum: rethinking the woman as fetish- the art of kara walker
case study: hitchcock films
alfred hitchcock
hitchcock basic film techniques
the psychology of alfred hitchcock
art work
douglas gordon: 24-hour psycho
valie export- action pants: genital panic (1969)
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