Visual Culture I (P01327)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P01327

The course consists of 10 sessions which focus on distinct types of products and spaces of visual culture: cartoons, illustrations, artist books, posters, popular magazines, animation, film, television, advertising and display, photograhpy, new media, graffiti, architecture, monuments and urban spaces. Each session emphasises the inherent tensions between: image and text, discourse and representation, text and context, memory and erasure, naming and marking.

Key topics discussed in the course include: propaganda and censorship; opposition and contestation; modernization, progress and tradition; local specificity of visual culture and its potential for crossing national and linguistic boundaries; the relationship between text and image, place and language; tensions between the popular and high culture; the contribution of the visual culture to shaping of national, poitical and gender identities, city as a site of representation, display, commemoration, and performance; the importance of the alphabetic and religious divides in shaping local identities; the stereotypes of symbolism and visual associations; the impact of visual culture and the visibility of texts on languages and identities; and creative potentials of media convergences and translations.

The course explores visual culture in relation to local and regional languages and identitites. It offers a framework for investigating the ways in which Western notions of visual culture are questioned and redifined in the Eastern European context. Ultimately the course offers a fremework to explore the ways in which Western notions of visual culture are questioned and redefined in the Eastern European context. It critically examines a range of prouducts of the visual culture in Eastern Europe and Russia in relation to local and regional languages and identities.

? Keywords : Visual Culture Media

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Common Courses (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures), (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will gain a sound knowledge of various forms of visual culture. They will become familiar with the visual culture of Eastern Europe and Russia and will develop the analytical skills needed to engage with an arrage of cultural forms. They will be able to engage critically with the difference and speicificity of cultural products and cultrual contexts.