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Seeing Culture: Vision, Visuality and The Senses - CUL121
Visual culture brings together a range of theories, practices and texts that explore the relationship between vision, visuality and the way people act in their everyday lives. This unit introduces students to a variety of critical concepts which can be used in the analysis of visual texts. Exploring a range of imagery and media, including film, television, photography and Information Technology, we look at the ways visual culture shapes (and is shaped by) our social worlds, our bodies and identities. In particular we focus on relationships between the visual and normalising practices, contemporary politics, bodies and technologies. Within these relationships we explore the (re)production, performance and use of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, fatness and disability. Further to this we explore notions of genre, discourse, power and textuality through the application and testing of methods of visual analysis. Finally we place the visual within the contexts of embodiment, the human sensorium and the everyday.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | S2 Day - Session 2, North Ryde, Day MQC1 Day - Macquarie City Campus Study Period 1, Undergraduate, Day, March to June MQC3 Evening - Macquarie City Campus Study Period 3, Undergraduate, Evening, November to February |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Anthony Lambert |
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| NCCW(s): | CUL101 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts |
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