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124262 KO Critical Media Analysis (2012S)

Comics as a Means of Constructing Realities

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

It is MANDATORY for ALL STUDENTS, who have sucessfully signed up for this course, to be PRESENT at the first class session. If not students will be removed from the attendance list and their spot will be made available to other students.
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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Mittwoch 14.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 21.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 28.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 18.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 25.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 02.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 09.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 16.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 23.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 30.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 06.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 13.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 20.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 27.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Comics and Sequential Art can be thought of as a hybrid, a crossbreeding between text and image, producing meaning at the intersection of word and picture.

What are its specific mechanisms, and how does the comics medium use them in order to invade our daily realities and construct its own?

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Participants will be asked to give oral presentations and hand in written assignments.
There will be a written exam the end of the semester.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The course will tackle the following questions:

How do comics use specific cultural backgrounds/ information to produce meaning?
How important is the intertextual character of comics and graphic novels?
How do certain types of genre comics create and develop protagonist archetypes?
How do comics treat timportant topics , such as "identity", "the abject", "otherness" and "gender discourse"?

Prüfungsstoff

During this course students will receive an introduction into various genres of anglophone comics and critically discuss and analyze the realities mediated and constructed in these comics.

Students will be asked to read a selection of primary texts as well as selected articles from the list of secondary literature provided.

Literatur

Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics.
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.
Morrison, Grant. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
Sacco, Joe. Palestine
Spiegelman, Art. Maus II

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612
Code/Modul: Diplom 426/428, 436/438, 526/528, 536/538, 721-723, UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22