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Master's of Radio, Television and Cinema with Thesis

RTS540

ARCHEOLOGY OF THE IMAGE

Course Code
RTS540
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
10
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelMaster's Degree With Thesis
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS10
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. gets the opportunity to discover the core of theory and praxis related to genealogy of the image.
  2. can evaluate and analyze different theoretical and methodological legacies of the image.
  3. learn to analyze and synthesize the praxis of image as for the re-evaluation of the past.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme Componentsnone.
Course DescriptionWhile convergence of the technological media enables mediated communication to occur every time and everywhere; it also necessitates the constant examination of problematic of image ontology and representation. In this context this course aims to provide the necessary conceptual, historical, philosophical and artistic background to those who will work in the cross section of art and communication and in the process of construction of time-space with the image. For this purpose this course analyzes the theoretical and methodological positions that build their existence by the means of image within a historical and critical perspective.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Seeing and thinking
2nd Week Visual thinking and visual literacy
3rd Week Timepace, the image and reality
4th Week Virtual reality and the image
5th Week Technological convergence of the media and the image
6th Week Mechanical reproducibility of the image
7th Week The image and imagination
8th Week Midterm exam
9th Week Genealogy and ontology of the image
10th Week Truth, power and the image
11th Week Technologies of production, of sign systems, of power and of self
12th Week The image: Ideology and discourse
13th Week The anthropology of image
14th Week Visual rhetoric and ethic
Recommended or Required ReadingArnheim, Rudolph. 1974. Visual thinking. Berkeley. CA: University of California Press
Benjamin, Walter. 2006. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) in Media and Cultural Studies (eds.)Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner)Blackwell Publishing.
Burke, Kenneth. 1937. Literature as Equipment for Living. Contemporary Literary Cirticism: Literary and Cultural Studies, 1994) (Ed. Robert Con Davis & Roland Schlefier). London: Longman.
Rabinow, Paul. (ed.) 1984. Foucault Reader.NewYork: Pantheon Books.
Foucault, Michel. 1970 The Order of Things (trans. Anon). London: Routledge
Heiddeger, Martin. The Origin of Work of Art. Cambridge University Press.
Kristeva, Julia 1982. Desire in language : a semiotic approach to literature and art. Oxford: B.Blackwell.
Kristeva, Julia 1991. Strangers to ourselves. Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf Hemel.
Lechte, John.2012. Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future.Newyork:Routledge.
Mitchell, W. J. T. 1986 - Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Panofsky, Erwing. 1972. Studies in Iconology. Oxford: WestviewPress.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 20
Assignment 1 40
Total(%) 60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40
Total(%) 100
Language of InstructionEnglish
Work Placement(s)No

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