552.286 (19S) Topics in American Cultural Studies: Imagining Surveillance through Literature and Film
Überblick
- Lehrende/r
- LV Nummer Südostverbund ENM03001UL
- LV-Titel englisch Topics in American Cultural Studies: Imagining Surveillance through Literature and Film
- LV-Art Proseminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
- Semesterstunde/n 2.0
- ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 3.0
- Anmeldungen 27 (25 max.)
- Organisationseinheit
- Unterrichtssprache Englisch
- mögliche Sprache/n der Leistungserbringung Englisch
- LV-Beginn 05.03.2019
- eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
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Anmerkungen
Attendance of the first class meeting on March 5, 2019 is MANDATORY!
- Seniorstudium Liberale Ja
Zeit und Ort
LV-Beschreibung
Intendierte Lernergebnisse
Students will be introduced to basic concepts and terminology of the field of surveillance studies. Moreover, they will gain a basic understanding of the historically changing representations of surveillance; further advance their skills in critically analysing literature and films with special attention to issues of race, class, and gender; and acquire knowledge about genres that have been used to represent and negotiate ideas concerning surveillance.
Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools
In-class discussion of assigned primary and theoretical texts. Short input lectures will provide overviews that help historically contextualize primary literature and guide in-class discussion in smaller groups and the entire class; short midterm exam.
Inhalt/e
After Kellyanne Conway spoke of "alternative facts" following the debates about the crowd size at Donald Trump's inauguration, sales of George Orwell's dystopian surveillance classic Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) were soaring. This not only hints at a great general interest in thinking about social control and surveillance today, but also at the ways in which such thought has always been "in a loose conversation with artists, fictions, and their robust material” (Monahan 2011). The seminar aims to explore this “loose conversation” and the intimate long-standing links between surveillance and art, thereby introducing students to what Monahan calls an emerging “cultural studies of surveillance.” We will focus on historically changing theories and concepts of surveillance (e.g. Foucault; Lyon; Monahan) to make sense of its different forms and means (e.g. panopticism; CCTV; Big Data). This theoretical background will enhance our readings of a variety of primary texts ranging from E.A. Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” (1840) to novels by Orwell (1949) and Atwood (1985), and the recent blockbuster movie The Circle (2017). Turning to questions of both the aesthetics and politics of surveillance through literature and film, which involves addressing issues like identity, individuality, public and private, power and knowledge, as well as race, class, and gender, will help explore artistic productions as important parts of North American conversations about surveillance.
Literatur
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). Any edition.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Any edition.
All other texts will be made available by the instructor.
Prüfungsinformationen
Beurteilungsschema
Note BenotungsschemaPosition im Curriculum
- Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch
(SKZ: 407, Version: 17W.2)
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Fach: Anglophone Cultural History and Theory
(Pflichtfach)
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ENM.003 Topics in American Cultural Studies (
2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
- 552.286 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Imagining Surveillance through Literature and Film (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 4., 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
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ENM.003 Topics in American Cultural Studies (
2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Anglophone Cultural History and Theory
(Pflichtfach)
- 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)
- 552.286 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Imagining Surveillance through Literature and Film (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 4., 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
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ENM.003 Topics in American Cultural Studies (
2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
-
Fach: Anglophone Cultural History and Theory
(Pflichtfach)
- Diplom-Lehramtsstudium Unterrichtsfach Englisch
(SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
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1.Abschnitt
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Fach: Culture Studies
(Pflichtfach)
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Cultures in Close-Up (
1.0h PS / 2.0 ECTS)
- 552.286 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Imagining Surveillance through Literature and Film (2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
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Cultures in Close-Up (
1.0h PS / 2.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Culture Studies
(Pflichtfach)
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1.Abschnitt
- Diplom-Lehramtsstudium Unterrichtsfach Englisch
(SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
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1.Abschnitt
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Fach: Linguistic Basis
(Pflichtfach)
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Cultures in Close-Up (
1.0h PS / 2.0 ECTS)
- 552.286 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Imagining Surveillance through Literature and Film (2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
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Cultures in Close-Up (
1.0h PS / 2.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Linguistic Basis
(Pflichtfach)
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1.Abschnitt
- Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik
(SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
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Fach: Fachliches Grundstudium Culture
(Pflichtfach)
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6.2 Topics in American Cultural Studies (
0.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
- 552.286 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Imagining Surveillance through Literature and Film (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 3. Semester empfohlen
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6.2 Topics in American Cultural Studies (
0.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Fachliches Grundstudium Culture
(Pflichtfach)
- Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik
(SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
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Fach: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (ab 11W)
(Pflichtfach)
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Modul: Culture (ab 11W)
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Topics in Culture (
2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS)
- 552.286 Topics in American Cultural Studies: Imagining Surveillance through Literature and Film (2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS)
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Topics in Culture (
2.0h PS / 5.0 ECTS)
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Modul: Culture (ab 11W)
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Fach: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (ab 11W)
(Pflichtfach)