The Power of the Image, The Image of Power 1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 373MOM1 | Z | 2 | 2/T | Czech | winter |
- Subject guarantor:
- Ladislav ŠERÝ
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Ladislav ŠERÝ
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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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 study:
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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:
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Analytical and critical skills.
- Recommended optional programme components:
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None
- Course contents:
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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.
- Recommended or required reading:
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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:
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Class
- Assessment methods and criteria:
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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.
- Course web page:
- Note:
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- Further information:
- This course is an elective for all AMU students
- Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:
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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 Tue Fri Thu Fri Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel Mon 15:40–17:15 ŠERÝ L. Učebna 7
Lažanský palácpřednášková par. 1 - Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Animation - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Documentary Film - Master (optional subject)
- Documentary Film - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Animation - Master (optional subject)
- Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Master (optional subject)
- Film Directing - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Film Directing - Master (optional subject)
- Cinematography - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Cinematography - Master (optional subject)
- Production - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Production - Master (optional subject)
- Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
- Editing - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Editing - Master (optional subject)
- Sound Design - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Sound Design - Master (optional subject)
- Photography CZ - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Photography CZ - Master (optional subject)
- Audiovisual Studies - Master (optional subject)
- Restoring of Photogrphy (optional subject)