POLITICS AND ART

AMER515

Course Code: AMER515
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

will be able to discuss the understanding that all art is political in nature,
will be able to discuss how the arts influence politics as much as politics influence the arts and how political ideas are reflected through a variety of artistic means.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

A course which examines the relationship between art and politics in America by studying various literary and artistic works and movements which are ostensibly political in nature.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction: Politics and Art
2^nd Week	Politics and Music: Jazz, Rock'n Roll, Hip-Hop, Neosoul, Country, and the like
3^rd Week	Politics and Music: Jazz, Rock'n Roll, Hip-Hop, Neosoul, Country, and the like
4^th Week	Political Cinema: Patriotic, Anti-War, Anti-Establishment Films
5^th Week	Political Cinema: Patriotic, Anti-War, Anti-Establishment Films
6^th Week	Student Presentations
7^th Week	Student Presentations
8^th Week	Mid-term Examination
9^th Week	Poetry and Politics: Democratic Vistas, Poetry of Dissent
10^th Week	Poetry and Politics: Democratic Vistas, Poetry of Dissent
11^th Week	Pictorial Arts: Revolutionary Artists, Critiques of Consumer Society (Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock the Armory Show of 1913, and the like)
12^th Week	Pictorial Arts: Revolutionary Artists, Critiques of Consumer Society (Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock the Armory Show of 1913, and the like)
13^th Week	Student Presentations
14^th Week	Student Presentations

Recommended or Required Reading

Adorno, Theodore. Culture Industry, London: Routledge, 1991.

Barta, Tony. Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.

Davies, Philip, and Brian Neve. Cinema, Politics and Society in America, New York: St. Martin's, 1981.

Francis, Frascina. Art, Politics and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties' America. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999.

Howe, Irving. Politics and the Novel. New York: Meridian, 1987.

Melzer, Arthur M, J. Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds. Democracy and the Arts, 1999.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	30
Attendance	1	10
Presentation of Article	2	20
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	3	3
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	5	70
Preparation for Final exam	1	25	25
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	25	25
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework
Article Presentation	2	35	70
Weekly Articles and Resource Research	14	5	70
Total Work Load			308
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.26
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

English

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