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Course: 2019/2020

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: 1º
Semester: 2º



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
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 TEACHING: Sibley Labandeira Moran
Learning activities and methodology
METHODOLOGY Theoretical credits: Through theoretical classes and explanation and discussion of texts and contents. Audiovisual support are required. Practical credits: Through group discussions based on active participation, comment and analysis of texts and images. Students are expected to make an oral presentation based on their written papers. FORMATIVE ACTIVITIES Discussions sessions and presentations. Group practices on rethorics of image. Mandatory Readings Screening and analysis of works Individual research work (written paper).
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 70
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 30

Basic Bibliography
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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
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  • 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
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  • Virilio, P.. La máquina de visión. Cátedra. 1989
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