The Power of the Image, The Image of Power 2

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Subject guarantor:

Ladislav ŠERÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Ladislav ŠERÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

An introduction to the modern and post-modern ideas of the roll of the image, its power and efforts in creating a social reality.

Mode of study:

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:

None

Course contents:

A broadly based critique of the image, media and power originating particularly from a philosophical and sociological position. A study of the fabrication of truth, the diachotomy of reality and fiction, simulation and metaphorization of sense, representation and virtualization of so-called reality. The image as a part of consumer culture, spectacle as a camouflage of general insecurity. Advertisement as a manifestation of the ideolization of the social space. The medial psychosis of threat, real time digital networks. Technology as a tool of dominance and power and as control over human energy resources.

Recommended or required reading:

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:

Class

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.

Course web page:

Note:

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Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

	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)
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Wed
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Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	15:40–17:15	ŠERÝ L.	Učebna 7 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• 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)