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Course: 2024/2025

Construction of identity and the social imaginary in film and television present

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Master in Applied Research in Media (Plan: 516 - Estudio: 248)

EPH

Coordinating teacher: GALAN FAJARDO, HELENA MARIA

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Electives

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 1º

Semester: 2º

Branch of knowledge: Social Sciences and Law

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

Theory and criticism of Cinema Theory and criticism of Television Audiovisual Narrative Film studies Television Studies

Objectives

- Analysis of the construction of identity and social imaginaries in the audiovisual media - Competences on analysis textual analysis of film - Critical analysis of audiovisual discourses

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

- Presentation of the subject, theoretical framework, methodology. - The study of identity. - The end of modernity and the crisis of the subject. Analysis of cases in the audiovisual landscape. - How to analyze an audiovisual text (I and II). - Spaces and identities. - Identity, memory and history. - The individual versus the system. Bureaucratic castles. - What makes us human? Identity in the technological context. The course programme may be subject to variations due to duly justified force majeure or due to academic events communicated in advance.

Learning activities and methodology

-Exercise of analytical skills applied to the analysis of cinema and television. -Textual analysis through oral presentations. -Explanation and application of the methodology in practical sessions. -Individual and group tutorials.

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 30
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 70

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Class participation (40%)
Final work presentation, classroom analysis, recommended readings and discussion (30%) 
Individual research work based on the syllabus, methodology and themes taught in the subject (30%)

The use of generative artificial intelligence will be allowed in applications that facilitate research work (search for resources, citation, relation of variables...) always from a critical point of view and supervising the results.

Basic Bibliography

Bauman, Zygmunt . Enamorarse y desenamorarse, en Amor líquido. Acerca de la fragilidad de los vínculos humanos. . Fondo de Cultura Económica, pp. 11-37.. [2000 (2005)].
Berger, Peter . Risa redentora. La dimensión cómica de la experiencia humana. Editorial Kairós, pp. 169-195.. Kairós. [1997 (1998)].
Billing, Michael. Nacionalismo banal. capitan Swing. 2014
Boden, Margaret A. . Inteligencia artificial. Turner. 2022 (2016 1ª Ed.)
Brown, Wendy . El deseo de amurallar, en Estados Amurallados, soberanía en declive. Herder. 2015
Byung-Chul Han. La expulsión de lo distinto. Herder. 2017
Galán Fajardo, Helena & Rueda Laffond, José Carlos . Televisión, identidad y memoria: representación de la guerra civil española en la ficción contemporánea, en OberCom, volumen 7, número 2.. OberCom. 2013
Imbert, Gérard. El "transformismo" televisivo. Televisión e imaginarios sociales. . Cátedra. 2008
Imbert, Gérard. Crisis de valores en el cine posmoderno. Más allá de los límites. . Cátedra. 2019
Jubany, Olga y Guasch, Oscar (eds). Intersecciones encarnadas. [Con] textos críticos en género, identidad y diversidad. Bellaterra. 2020
Lerner, Gerda . La creación del patriarcado. Katakrak. [1986 (1991)].
Mulvey, Laura . Placer visual y cine narrativo, en Wallis, Brian. Arte después de la Modernidad. Nuevos planteamientos en torno a la representación, pp. 365-377. . Akal. [2001 (1988)].
Pateman, Carole . Hacer un contrato, en El contrato sexual. Anthropos. [1988 (1995)].
Ritzer, George . La McDonalización y sus precursores, en La McDonalización de la sociedad. Un análisis de la racionalización de la vida cotidiana, pp. 34-52.. Ariel Economía. [1993 (2006)].
Rosenstone, Robert. La historia en el cine, el cine sobre la historia. Rialp. 2014
Rosset, Clément . Lejos de mi. Estudio sobre la identidad. Marbot. [1999 (2007)].
Stuart Hall. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Sage Publications & Open University. 1997

Electronic Resources *

Galán Fajardo, Helena y Rueda Laffond, Jose Carlos · Televisión, identidad y memoriarepresentación de la guerra civil española en la ficción contemporánea : https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5577140
Galán, Helena y Díaz, Susana · Please, don¿t be sorry. Please, do something¿ En torno a The Handmaid¿s Tale (Hulu, 2017) : https://www.academia.edu/36928921/_Please_don_t_be_sorry._Please_do_something_En_torno_a_The_Handmaid_s_Tale_Hulu_2017_

(*) Access to some electronic resources may be restricted to members of the university community and require validation through Campus Global. If you try to connect from outside of the University you will need to set up a VPN

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.

More information: https://aplicaciones.uc3m.es/cpa/generaFicha?est=248&asig=14666&idioma=1