CUL121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Piss Christ, Intertextuality, Andres Serrano
28 Aug 2018
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Lecture 1
Lectures and Classes
Two hours of Lectures every tuesday from 4-5pm
1 weekly tutorial
tutorials are graded
Assessment:
Tutorial Exercises 25% (presentation) analysis of one specific cultural text, apply key terms and
concepts from that week in your group
Screening Responses 5% ( every tut to write a response to the screenings, two short response,
summarising what the screening was about and how it is useful, submit the paper version to the
tutorial )
screen tests 30% ( three online quizzes )
analysis one 30%
interactivity 10%
* In cultural studies we focus on:
* social practices, signifying practices and subjectivity (self)
* Visual culture asks: how can we understand the kinds of meanings generated by visual culture?
How have those meaning- making practices of the visual developed? what kinds of social
meanings- such as gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality- do they articulate?
* society+ meaning+ self
* Visuality= being+ seeing
* the state or condition of the visual
* seeing as an everyday practice
* relationship between what we see, how we see, and the world around us
* how do they construct and respond to each other
* local and global cultures
* how are people allowed to see and respond to things that happen worlds away (shootings) we
are not physically
* Seeing culture+ reading the visual
* embodied/ tacit knowledge
* organise and arranges identities and spaces
* produces bodies and technologies
* cultural studies approaches to film
* flow of meaning between the visual and other senses
* how do we see culturally?
* the flow of meaning between the visuality and the other senses
* more than just using your eyes
* who is looking and how we make meaning of what we are seeing
* the consumer and the world around us
* relations between visual, meanings and actions ( culturally framed)
* whats being looked ant and who is looking
* what photographs actually meant ( Bill Henson)
* ideas created around images and the discourses surrounding them. child pornographer or
* The Gaze, the notion of ‘the gaze’ refers to humans relations between the acts of looking and
being looked at: codes desire and power determine particular viewing positions
* well, know ‘gazes’ in the study of visual culture include:
* male gaze (Mulvey 1975)
* Colonial gaze (Pratt, 1992)
* Queer Gaze (Higgins, 1993)
* Tourist gaze (Urry, 1990)
* What does the act of looking describe you as?
* account for the way people, objects and items are placed
* the gaze is about power, who has it, how they enact it,
* Jeremy Bentham's 1787, Panopticon
Document Summary
Two hours of lectures every tuesday from 4-5pm. Tutorial exercises 25% (presentation) analysis of one specific cultural text, apply key terms and concepts from that week in your group. * social practices, signifying practices and subjectivity (self) * the state or condition of the visual. * relationship between what we see, how we see, and the world around us. * how do they construct and respond to each other. * how are people allowed to see and respond to things that happen worlds away (shootings) we are not physically. * flow of meaning between the visual and other senses. * the flow of meaning between the visuality and the other senses. * who is looking and how we make meaning of what we are seeing. * the consumer and the world around us. * relations between visual, meanings and actions ( culturally framed) * whats being looked ant and who is looking. * what photographs actually meant ( bill henson)
