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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Art History
111-108 Visual Cultures |
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Availability: | Not offered in 1997. | |
Credit Points: | 12.5 1st year | |
Coordinator: | Angela Ndalianis and Chris McAuliffe | |
Contact: | No more than four hours of lectures, screenings and tutorials each week. | |
Subject Description: | This subject encompasses a study of popular forms of a variety of visual cultures including the cinema, television, art, photography, design, advertising and multi-media. The origins of some of these visual forms (for example, photography, television and the cinema) will be accounted for, but the course will especially concern itself with a focus on the various critical and interpretative methods which have dominated the analysis of visual cultures in the twentieth century. These may include: questions of 'realism', avant-gardism and alternative approaches to mainstream forms, propaganda and ideology, issues of nationalism. Other broader issues to be raised will centre around visual cultures and the relationship that exists in relation to: commodification, spectatorship, ideology, form and style, fantasy and desire, authorship and sexuality. | |
Assessment: | Written work which may comprise one class paper and an essay totalling not more than 4000 words. | |
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