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In this course students will practice:
- reading, analyzing and discussing academic texts; recognizing, describing, analyzing and discussing different screen phenomena;
- academic presentation skills and academic writing skills;
- academic collaboration.
After successfully completing this course, you will be able to recognize and better understand the relationship between (screen) technologies and practices, and the spatial and material conditions, and performative aspects of screen spectatorship; digest academic writing; articulate valid research questions about screen technologies and practices from a (historical) comparative perspective; conduct a comparative analysis of (historical and/or contemporary) screen phenomena.
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Priority rules apply to this course. Make sure you register for this course before 11 November 12.00 noon to be considered for enrollment.
The following students are guaranteed a place:
- BA Media en cultuur/BA Media and Culture
- BA TCS or LAS;
- students who are registered for the minor Comparative Media Studies;
- pre-master’s students.
Other students will be placed by means of random selection.
This course is about new and changing screens: cinematic “updates” as well as screens beyond the cinema. In this course we will investigate the relationship between screen technologies and culturally-embedded screen practices, specifically in public and urban contexts. Screen phenomena beside the classical cinematic screen that will be discussed and analyzed are: urban screens, mobile screens, VR and AR, video mapping and outdoor projections, interactive screen-based installations, and so-called media architecture. We will focus on change and innovation, as well as a comparison of different and/or converging media forms. Zooming in on moments when new spaces are produced by new screen technologies, the perspective that we will develop in this course is a historically-informed comparative analysis. For this, we will reflect on theories about the specificity of the cinematic and post-cinematic screen and on spatial, material and performative aspects of screen spectatorship. Starting points for our inquiries will be offered by current debates about digitization and techno-cultural change, questions about medium specificity, hybridity and convergence and about new (and interactive) forms of spectatorship.
Key words: comparative screen studies, dispositif, spectatorship.
This course is part of the advanced trajectory (Verdiepingspakket) Film en media cultuur, as well as the advanced trajectory Comparative Media Studies, and builds on knowledge and skills introduced and trained in basispakket 1 en 2 Media and Culture. In these advanced trajectories students deepen their historical and theoretical knowledge of media and train academic skills that are specific to the field.
This course is the fourth course in specialization Film en mediacultuur and specialization Comparative Media Studies.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/ for more information.
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