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Related Preparation |
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Introduction |
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2 |
What is Representation? Stuart Hall, Representation and the Media (MEF, 1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=84depWskwu0&t=4s |
Stuart Hall (Ed) 1997. Representation. Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Sage Publications. Marita Sturken & Lisa Cartwright. 2009. Practices of looking: an introduction to visual culture. |
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What is Visual Culture? Images, power, politics Episode 1, Ways of Seeing, John Berger (BBC TV series, 1972) |
ohn Berger, Ways of Seeing, Penguin, 1972. Pp. 7-33 (Chapter 1). Michel Foucault “Las Meninas” Chapter 1 in The Order of Things: An Archeology of Human Sciences (Les Mots et les choses) pp. 3-16. |
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Semiotics Mythologies |
Marita Sturken & Lisa Cartwright. 2009. Practices of looking: an introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 179-218. Roland Barthes (1977) “Rhetoric of the image” Image - Music - Text. Hill and Wang, pp.32-51. Roland Barthes “The Eiffel Tower” in The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. University of California Press. pp. 3-17. |
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Culture Industry Screening Money for Nothing (MEF, 2001) |
Raymond Williams. 1976. “Culture” in Keywords, Oxford University Press. pp. 87-93. Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer. “The Culture Industry. Enlightenment as mass deception” in Gunzelin Schmid Noerr (Ed). 2009. Dialectic of enlightenment: philosophical fragments. Stanford Univ. Press. Pp. 41-72. |
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Stereotypes, Ideology, Identity, Otherness, Orientalism - Occidentalism. Screening: Edward Said on Orientalism (MEF, 1998) Screening Reel Bad Arabs (MEF, 2006) Do the Right Thing. Spike Lee. 1989 |
Marita Sturken & Lisa Cartwright. 2009. Practices of looking: an introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 22-26. bell hooks (2015) “eating the other. desire and resistance” in Black Looks. Race and Representation. Routledge. Pp. 21-40. Edward Said. 1977. “Imaginative geography and the its representations: Orientalizing the Oriental” in Orientalism. Western Conceptions of the Orient. Penguin Books. Pp. 49-72. Meltem Ahıska “Occidentalism: The Historical Fantasy of the Modern” The South Atlantic Quarterly. Duke University Press. Volume 102, Number 2/3, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 351- 379. |
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Gender. Screenings: Codes of Gender (MEF, 2010) Episode 3, Ways of Seeing, John Berger (BBC TV series, 1972) |
Judith Butler – "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" (1988) John Berger “Chapter 3” in Ways of Seeing. 1972. |
8 |
From Modernism to Postmodernism – Changing Regimes of Visuality Simulation Screening: Český Sen (2004) (90 min) Assignment 1 (20%) due |
Marita Sturken & Lisa Cartwright “Chapter 8: Postmodernism: Irony, Parody, Pastiche” in Practices of Looking. An Introduction to Visual Culture, Oxford University Press. 2018 (Third Edition), pp. 301-336. Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation. |
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Midterm week |
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10 |
Consumer cultures: From Nationalism to Globalism |
William Mazzarella "'Very Bombay': Contending with the Global in an Indian Advertising Agency." Cultural Anthropology 18, no. 1 (2003): 33–71. Derya Ozkan & Robert J. Foster “Consumer Citizenship, Nationalism, and Neoliberal Globalization in Turkey: The Advertising Launch of Cola Turka” Advertising & Society Review, vol. 6 no. 3, 2005. |
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Social media, digital culture Screenings Growing up Online (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli ne/film/kidsonline/ Generation Like (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli ne/film/generation-like/ SelfieCity Research Project http://www.selfiecity.net/. Assignment 2 (30%) due |
Lev Manovich & Alise Tifentale “Selfiecity: Exploring Photography and Self-Fashioning in Social Media” in Berry, David M. and Michael Dieter, eds. Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design (Palgrave Macmillan: 2015), pp. 109-122. Susan Murray (2008) “Digital Images, Photo- sharing, and our shifting notions of everyday aesthetics” Journal of Visual Culture. Vol 7(2), pp. 147-163 Geoffrey Batchen, “Specters of cyberspace,” in The Visual Culture Reader, Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed. (London: Routledge, 1998), 237–242. |
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Assignment 2 - In class Reviews |
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13 |
Artificial Intelligence |
Lev Manovich – AI Aesthetics (2018). |
14 |
Project (%30) |
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15 |
Final Exams |
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16 |
Final Exams |
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