In this course, you will practice:
- reading, analyzing and discussing academic texts;
- recognizing, describing, analyzing, comparing 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-based technologies and practices;
- recognize and better understand the relationship between the spatial, material and performative dimensions of screen spectatorship;
- digest academic literature from/related to the field of screen studies
- 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 15 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. Departing from film theoretical approaches, we will compare these new screens with the classical cinematic screening situation. New and other screens that will be discussed and analyzed are, for example, urban screens, mobile screens, VR, interactive screen-based installations, and so-called media architecture. The perspective that we will develop in this course is a historically-informed comparative analysis, and we will practice the skill of doing a concept-driven dispositif analysis of various screening situations. 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-based spectatorship. Starting points for our inquiries will be offered by current debates about digitization, questions about medium specificity, and about new (and interactive) forms of screen-based spectatorship.
Keywords: comparative screen studies, dispositif, spectatorship.
This course is part of the academic profile (Verdiepingspakket) Film- en mediacultuur, as well as the academic profile Screen Cultures in Transition and builds on knowledge and skills introduced and trained in the first year of the BA Media and Culture. In these academic profiles students deepen and specialize 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 the academic profile Screen Cultures in Transition.
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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