552.285 (15W) Topics in American Cultural Studies: Symbols of Strangeness - Visualized References to the Unconventional in American Popular Culture

Wintersemester 2015/16

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05.10.2015 09:00 - 12:00 N.0.43 On Campus
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LV Nummer Südostverbund ENM03001UL
LV-Titel englisch Topics in American Cultural Studies: Symbols of Strangeness - Visualized References to the Unconventional in American Popular Culture
LV-Art Proseminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 3.0
Anmeldungen 33 (25 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Deutsch
LV-Beginn 01.10.2015

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Inhalt/e

14-tägig von 9 bis 12; Kurbeginn: 5. Oktober

Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools

Input units, discussions, collective exercises such as analyses of (multi-)medial products (pursuant to watching and discussing); EXPERT SESSIONS designed by (groups of) students on the suggested key-clusters of topics; developing ideas for your PROSEMINAR PAPERS further;

Inhalt/e

Held every fortnight from 9 to 12; class begins on October, 5th; FINAL DROP-DATE: October 19th! Key-areas: •Ways of referencing in films, TV-Series, videogames, music; •(strategies/ways of) indicating “strangeness” in these medial products; •What is “strangeness”, what “the unconventional”? Definitions stemming from psychology and literature studies; •Perception of the “weird” versus the “alien(ated)”; •How viewers are made to (temporarily) develop empathy and sympathy; •Symbols, metaphors, emblems (literary and visualized); •Adaptation, transmediality, reinterpretation, recontextualisation, etc. Key-clusters of topics (to be continued): •TWIN PEAKS (Lynch and Frost), (the epitome of strangeness) and the referential system in its WAKE (videogames ALAN WAKE, DEADLY PREMONITION, above all: LIFE IS STRANGE; TV-series like TWILIGHT ZONE, FARGO, the movie and the new TV-series etc.), referential Songs/cover versions, as well as the actual roots (dream-logic and more); •ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (dir. Jim Jarmusch) and its new take on vampirism (reimagining Kit Marlowe, many ways of referencing other iconic Anglophone writers, dealing with music, songs, instruments, science, architecture, painting, the image of Detroit as a “rock city” (plus movie DETROIT ROCK CITY), intercultural relevance (Arabian world, Tangier as second main location etc.) … and a unique kind of (fictionalized) social “strangeness”; •CHEYENNE – THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) and its portrayal of a musician (iconic hybrid of few frontmen) who has to find a way of dealing with his personal history by going on a journey in many a sense. videogame: THE WOLF AMONG US. (THE DOORS: “Strange Days”, “People Are Strange” etc. and Morrison’s multitude of literary references. The Doors of Perception, (limitedly) Kubrick's adaptation of King's THE SHINING and ensuing citations of "all work and no play [...]" adopted by and adapted in pop culture;) To do:expert session, paper,

Schlagworte

Symbolism, referentiality, transmediality, context, visual culture, a "dark" American screen;

Literatur

required material will be made available to the students; Moodle page;

Prüfungsinformationen

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe

TO DO: one "expert session" (group); an (individual) proseminar paper;

Beurteilungsschema

Note Benotungsschema

Position im Curriculum

  • Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 407, Version: 15W.2)
    • Fach: Anglophone Cultural History and Theory (Pflichtfach)
      • ENM.003 Topics in American Cultural Studies ( 2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.285 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Symbols of Strangeness - Visualized References to the Unconventional in American Popular Culture (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 4., 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
  • Diplom-Lehramtsstudium Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
    • 1.Abschnitt
      • Fach: Culture Studies (Pflichtfach)
        • Cultures in Close-Up ( 1.0h PS / 2.0 ECTS)
          • 552.285 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Symbols of Strangeness - Visualized References to the Unconventional in American Popular Culture (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
  • Diplom-Lehramtsstudium Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
    • 1.Abschnitt
      • Fach: Linguistic Basis (Pflichtfach)
        • Cultures in Close-Up ( 1.0h PS / 2.0 ECTS)
          • 552.285 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Symbols of Strangeness - Visualized References to the Unconventional in American Popular Culture (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
  • Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
    • Fach: Fachliches Grundstudium Culture (Pflichtfach)
      • 6.2 Topics in American Cultural Studies ( 0.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.285 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Symbols of Strangeness - Visualized References to the Unconventional in American Popular Culture (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 3. Semester empfohlen
  • Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
    • Fach: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (ab 11W) (Pflichtfach)
      • Modul: Culture (ab 11W)
        • Topics in Culture ( 2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS)
          • 552.285 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Symbols of Strangeness - Visualized References to the Unconventional in American Popular Culture (2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS)
  • Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
    • Fach: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (Pflichtfach)
      • Modul: Culture
        • Topics in Culture ( 2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS)
          • 552.285 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Symbols of Strangeness - Visualized References to the Unconventional in American Popular Culture (2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS)
            Absolvierung im 3. Semester empfohlen
  • Masterstudium Medien, Kommunikation und Kultur (SKZ: 841, Version: 09W.1)
    • Fach: Visuelle Kultur (Wahlfach)
      • Visuelle Kultur ( 0.0h XX / 12.0 ECTS)
        • 552.285 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Symbols of Strangeness - Visualized References to the Unconventional in American Popular Culture (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)

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