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240518 SE MM3 Historical and recent popular media research (2025S)

identity-forming messages, propaganda and fake images

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Mo 03.03. 11:30-13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 10.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 17.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 24.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 31.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 07.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 28.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 05.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 12.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 19.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 26.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 02.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 16.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 23.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 30.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Popular media and their content shape our understanding of culture and react to our perceptual abilities. Selected historical popular media will be used to examine their intentions, their impact and their social, economical and political consequences.
The focus is on the significance of image research and image analysis in the cultural and social sciences. There are also various branches within visual anthropology that deal with different aspects of the subject. Based on the historical development of image research in our discipline (which in part differs significantly from that in art history), the significance for the present and in particular the popular cultural dimension of image research are placed at the centre of the seminar. The aim is for students to have a different, more critical and differentiated view of images at the end of the seminar than before. The central image theories will be discussed as well as the power of images, the associated interpretative sovereignty and what images can (and should) trigger. Furthermore, the importance of image research for dealing with current issues will be highlighted.

Assessment and permitted materials

1) Active participation in the seminar;
2) Presentation and discussion of a given or self-selected illustration as part of a short presentation;
3) Submission of a written seminar paper of approx. 8-15 A4 pages.
Details on these three requirements will be given in the seminar.
Permitted aids: all (open book)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Prerequisite for a positive grade is a successful short presentation with the presentation, reflection and interpretation of an image/picture, as well as the written elaboration and processing of this image/picture, whereby both a theoretical embedding and reference to methodological approaches must be mentioned.
The evaluation is based on a point system: 16 points are awarded. 0-8 points = insufficient; 9-10 points = sufficient; 11-12 points = satisfactory; 13-14 points = good; 15-16 points = very good.

Examination topics

Presentations will be given in the seminar. In the course of their reflection and criticism in the plenum, hints for the written elaboration are given, which are topic-related in each case.
On the moodle platform set up for this lecture, pdf's of articles will be made available, as well as the slides of the Power-Point presentations used.

Reading list

Barthes, Roland (1990): Rhetorik des Bildes. In: ders.: Der entgegenkommende und der stumpfe Sinn. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, S. 28-46.
Belting, Hans (1990): Bild und Kult. Eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst. München: Beck.
Mitchell, W. J. T. (2008): Das Leben der Bilder. Eine Theorie der visuellen Kultur. München: Beck.
Burke, Peter (2010): Augenzeugenschaft. Bilder als historische Quellen. Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach.
Panofsky, Erwin (1975): Sinn und Deutung in der bildenden Kunst. Köln: DuMont.
Warburg, Aby (2000): Gesammelte Schriften. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. Darin: Der Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Hrsg. von Martin Warnke und Claudia Brink. Berlin 2000.

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