Visual Culture
The topic for the essay can be based on one of the lecture topics that has raised questions or issues that particularly interest you and want to research in more depth. OR. A topic that has arisen from your own research or studio practice that can be explored further within the context of visual culture. For example, as a Fashion Design student may wish to explore issues that have arisen in your studio practice and research and which can be explored in more depth. i will upload my project please take a look and finish this Assignment based on my project. Thanks
y ou should be judicious in your choice of images. They should be used as an important part of the argument or discussion, including some form of analysis of the image or the object that the image is depicting. Do not use them to decorate your essay and never include an image that is not referred to directly in the text and always reference them, giving as much information that is available (use the library guidance on Harvard referencing).
part of Reading List
| SessionTexts1Further Reading: WJT Mitchell, Showing SeeingYou will also find a lot of recommended texts in the weekly resources file on Blackboard which will be generally useful as an introduction to the field of visual Culture.2Required: Geoffrey Batchen (1998) Spectres of Cyberspace in The Visual Culture ReaderFurther Reading: Lacan, Jacques, The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function3Required: Andre Bazin, The Ontology of the Photographic Image Film Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4. Summer, 1960, pp. 4-9. (original French publication 1945)Further Reading: Roland Barthes (1981), Camera Lucida Vintage Press edition 1993Susan Sontag (1978) On Photography, Penguin Classics, London 2008Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: Conception of Photography, MIT Press 19994Further Reading: Mulvey, Laura. The Death Drive: Narrative Movement Stilled in Death 24X a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image. Reaktion Books 2006Victor Burgin, The Remembered Film, Chapter 6 Marker Marked. Reaktion Books 2004.Tanya Leighton (ed) Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader. Tate Publishing 2008Karen Beckman and Jean Ma (eds), Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography, Duke University Press 20085Required: Michel Foucault, “Panopticism” from Discipline and Punish Penguin 1977. Further reading: Anne Freidberg, The Mobalized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flaneur/Flaneuse, Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern, University of California Press 1993Film: Dragonfly Eyes (蜻 蜓 之 眼) (Xu Bing 2017)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Iz-t_zsQM&t=1120sVideo: Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-516516Required: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) – Laura MulveyOriginally Published – Screen 16.3 Autumn 1975 pp. 6-18Available online here;https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Visual+Pleasure+and+Narrative+CinemaFilms: Peeping Tom (Michael Powell 1960), Hidden (Caché) (Michael Haneke 2015)7Set Text: bell hooks (1992). “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectator”. The Feminism and Visual Cultural Reader: 94–105Film: Franz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask (Isaac Julian 1995) DocumentaryFurther Reading: Alan Read (ed) The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation8Required: Paranormal Activity: The Post-Cinematic RoundtableFurther Reading: Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli 200Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2014) Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality, McFarland North CarolinaFurther Reading: The Essay Film, A Manifesto, Mark Cousins https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2013/08/essayfilm.html10Required: Griselda Pollock (1988), Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity from Vision and Difference, Routledge LondonFurther Reading: Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli 200Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2014) Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality, McFarland North CarolinaFurther Reading: The Essay Film, A Manifesto, Mark Cousins https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2013/08/… |
In addition to the set reading, further recommended sources are:
Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall, Visual Culture: The Reader, Sage Publications in Association with the Open University (1999)
Nicholas Mirzeoff, The visual culture reader. London: Routledge 2013
Amelia Jones (ed) The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Routledge London 2010
Fiona Carson and Claire Pajaczkowska (eds) Feminist Visual Culture Edinburgh University Press 2000
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is the Message New York: NBC, 1967
Jonathan Cary, Spectacle, Attention Counter Memory, in Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents, Ed Tom McDonough, London: October. 2004
WJT Mitchell, What is an Image? New Literary History, Vol. 15, No. 3, Image/Imago/Imagination 1984
Sunil Manghani, Visual Studies: Theory and Practice. London ; New York : Routledge, 2013
John Armitage and Ryan Bishop (eds) Virilio and Visual Culture. Edinburgh University Press 2013
Anne Freidberg, The Mobalized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity inWindow shopping: cinema and the postmodern University of California Press 1993
Michel Foucault, “Panopticism” from Discipline and Punish available in Visual Culture: The Reader (see above)
Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Screen, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1 October 1975, Pages 6–18
Elizabeth Losh, Feminism Reads Big Data: Social Physics, Atomism and Selfiecity International Journal of Communication 9(2015)
Tanya Leighton Art and the Moving Image Tate Pub. in association with Afterall, 2008
Karen Beckman and Jean Ma Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography Duke University Press 2008
Requirements: 3000words
