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107-017 Visual Cultures | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-108. Students who have completed 111-108 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 1st year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr Chris McAuliffe |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per 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 their relationship with: commodification, spectatorship, ideology, form and style, fantasy and desire, authorship and sexuality. |
Assessment | A classpaper of 2000 words and an essay of 2000 words. |
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