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The Power of the Image, The Image of Power 1

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Course unit code:
373MOM1
Course unit title:
The Power of the Image, The Image of Power 1
Mode of delivery:
zápočet
Range:
2/T
Type of course unit:
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Režie - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Režie - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Kamera - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Produkce - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Produkce - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování – optional subject
Level of course unit:
Year of study
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – 2nd year
Semester when the course unit is delivered
zimní
Number of ECTS credits allocated:
2
Garant předmětu:
Ladislav ŠERÝ
Name of lecturer(s):
Ladislav ŠERÝ
Study Objectives:

An introduction of students to modern and post-modern thought about the role of an image, media and power in creating a social reality

Mode of delivery:

Lecture linked to or followed by moderated and non-moderated discussion and analyses of media, artistic or life's work examples.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Analytical and critical skills.

Recommended optional programme components
Course contents:

A broadly based critique of image, media and power originating, particularly from philosophical and sociological points of view and investigations of fabricated truth, the dichotomy of reality and fiction, simulation and metaphorization of thought, representation and virtualization of so-called reality. The image as part of consumer culture. Spectacle as a camouflage of general insecurity. Advertisement as a manifestation of the ideolization of the social space. The media psychosis of threat. The real-time of digital networks, Technology as the tool of domination and power as a technological control over persona energy resorces.

Study materials:

Theodor Adorno, Schéma masové kultury, Oikoymenh, Praha 2009

Jean Baudrillard, Dokonalý zločin, Periplum, Praha 2001

Guy Debord, Společnost spektáklu, Intu, Praha 2007

Vilém Flusser, Do universa technických obrazů. OSPVU, Praha 2001

Michel Foucault, Dohlížet a trestat, Dauphin, Praha 2000

Paul Virilio. Estetika mizení, Pavel Mervart, Praha 2010

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assessment methods and criteria

Credit will be awarded based on participation in class and submission of the paper on a proposed topic which the student defends in an interview.

Language of instruction:
Czech
Work placement(s):
Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
Course web page:
Note:
Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
místnost 344
Učebna 7

(Lažanský palác)
ŠERÝ L.
15:40–17:15
(přednášková par. 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri
Datum Den Čas Tutor Místo Notes Č. paralelky
Mon 15:40–17:15 ŠERÝ L. Učebna 7
Lažanský palác
přednášková par. 1
Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
Generated on 2012-6-25
Updates of the above given information can be found on http://studijniplany.amu.cz/en/predmet373MOM1.html