Postgraduate Course: Order/ Disorder - Picturing Urban Violence (HIAR11069)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | History of Art |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Images of spectacular urban disorder seem to be proliferating. This is a course that provides a some critical reflection and historical distance on such images. It examines contemporary urban violence through a range of visual representations: photography and film predominantly, but also electronic social media, and in at least two important case studies, the way architecture has been enlisted to attempt to control violence. The course centres on the expression of violence in key cities of Western Europe and the Americas from c. 1950 to the present day, and it emphasises large-scale urban disorder (riots, looting, etc.). Key historical moments include Paris in May 1968, Toxteth (Liverpool) in 1981, New York in September 2001 and Sao Paulo in 2006. Theoretical reference points range widely, from Engels and Freud to David Harvey and Rem Koolhaas. Key questions the course asks are: who, or what is represented in these images? How? For whom? And perhaps most importantly, to what end?
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students will:
* be familiar with the contemporary literature on the representation of urban disorder
* have detailed knowledge of a range of historical case studies from c.1950 to the present day
* be able to describe, analyse, and interpret images of urban disorder in the mass media and the visual arts
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Assessment Information
| 3-4000 word essay |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Richard Williams
Tel: (0131 6)51 6792
Email: R.J.Williams@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Christopher Miller
Tel: 0131 221 6150
Email: c.miller@ed.ac.uk |
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