Checking date: 26/04/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Rhetoric and Images
(15419)
Master in Cultural Theory and Critique (Plan: 356 - Estudio: 253)
EPH


Coordinating teacher: LABANDEIRA MORAN, SIBLEY ANNE

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
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Objectives
SPECIFIC SKILLS 1. To know different approaches to the analysis of image from an historical and transdisciplinary perspective. 2. To know and be able to recognize the key linguistic and rhetorical resources used in analysis and visual creation, by familiarization with different visual analysis methodologies and its relation to those used in other creative productions. 3. To know the main strategies and modalities of enunciation which characterize different practices of creation of knowledge and meaning through images. TRANSVERSAL SKILLS Observation skills. Capacity for analysis and synthesis. Capacity for organizing and planning. Capacity for organizing and analyzing information from different sources. Capacity for criticism, reflexivity, and self-criticism Research skills
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Some considerations regarding the idea o f "Image Rhetoric". 2. The Cultural Turn 3. The Visual Turn 4. The Affective Turn 5. Semiotics 6. Psychoanalysis and Image 7. Modernity and Image 8. Visual Dispositifs: Institutions 9. Visual Dispositifs: Technologies of the Image 10. Image as Document and the Past as Image 11. Thinking in/with/against/through Images
Learning activities and methodology
METHODOLOGY Theoretical credits: Through theoretical classes, with explanations and presentation of texts as well as artistic, experimental and critical creative works. Group debate will be essential to the course Practical credits: Through group discussions based on active participation, comment and analysis of texts and images. Students are expected to make an oral presentation. FORMATIVE ACTIVITIES - Debate and presentation sessions. - Mandatory Readings. - Screening and analysis of works - Individual research work (essay).
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 70
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 30

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
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  • Barthes, R. . La cámara lúcida, . Paidós , . 1987
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  • Brea, J.L. . Las tres eras de la imagen, . Akal, . 2010.
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  • Brennan, T., Jay, M. (eds.). Vision in Context. Routledge. 2013
  • Brennan, T., y Jay, M. (eds.) . Vision in Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight, Routledge, 1996 . Routledge, . 1996
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  • Gondra Aguirre, A., López de Munain, G. (ed.). Estudios de la imagen. Experiencia, percepción, sentidos(s). Sans Soleil. 2014
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  • Hall , S.(ed.) , . Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities, Vol 2),. Sage Publications,. 1997
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  • Holly, M.A., Smith, M.. What is research in the visual arts?. Clark Institute. 2008
  • Jay, M. Ojos abatidos. . Ojos abatidos. La denigración de la visión en el pensamiento francés del siglo XX,. Madrid, Akal, . 2008
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  • Jiménez, J.. Crítica del mundo imagen. Tecnos. 2019
  • Kittler, F.. Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter. Stanford University Press. 1999
  • LECHTE, John. Beyond the Ontology of Image?. EITHER/AND. 2013
  • Levin , D. M. (ed.) . Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision, . University of California Press, . 1993
  • Marks, L.. The Skin of the Film. Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses.. Duke University Press. 2000
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  • Rose, G. . Visual Methodologies : An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials, . Sage Publications, . 2001
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  • Smith, P.D. y Emminson, M.J. . Researching the Visual : Images, Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry, . Sage Publications, . 2000
  • Sobchack, Vivian. The Address of the Eye. Princeton University Press. 1992
  • Sobchack, Vivian. Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. University of California Press. 2004
  • Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past. Duke University Press. 2003
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  • Sturken, M., y Cartwright, L. . Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, . Oxford University Press. 2001
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  • VVAA "Cuestionario October sobre cultura visual" (publicado originalmente en el número 77 de la revista October, 1996), Estudios Visuales, núm. 1, . Estudios Visuales, núm. 1, . CENDEAC Murcia, . noviembre de 2003
  • Velasco, H. M. . Cuerpo y espacio. Símbolos y metáforas, representación y expresividad en las culturas, . Madrid: Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces, . 2007
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Recursos electrónicosElectronic Resources *
Additional Bibliography
  • BRENNAN, T., JAY, M. (Eds.). Vision in context. Routledge. 2013
  • Banks, M.. Los datos visuales en investigación cualitativa. Morata. 2010
  • Banks, M. , Morphy, H.. Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Yale University Press. 1999
  • Brea, J. L.. Nuevas estrategias alegóricas. Tecnos. Madrid
  • Carriere, A. Sabonit, J.. Retórica de la pintura. Cátedra. Madrid
  • Darley, A.. Cultura visual digital. Espectáculo y nuevos géneros en los medios de comunicación. Paidós. 2002
  • Deveraux, L, Hillman, R.. Fields of Vision. University California Press. 1995
  • Farago, C. (ed.). Compelling Visuality. University Minnesota Press. 1989
  • Howells, R.. Visual Culture. An Introduction. Polity Press. 2013
  • Jameson, F.. Signatures of the Visible. Routledge. 1995
  • Perniola, M.. La estética del siglo XX. A. Machado Libros. 2001
  • Virilio, P.. La máquina de visión. Cátedra. 1989
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