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Subject |
Related Preparation |
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Introduction: review of History of Camera-Images I and issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to camera-images
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Assignment I
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Working on the assignments. |
3) |
Post-war realities and fantasies in photographic work
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Weekly readings will be assigned. |
4) |
Post-war realities and fantasies in filmic work: Hollywood and counter-cinemas
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Weekly readings will be assigned. |
5) |
The emergence of video
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Weekly readings will be assigned. |
6) |
Assignment II |
Working on the assignments.
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7) |
Midterm; screening and discussion of filmic and video work in relation to uses of notion of postmodernism/the postmodern.
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Weekly readings will be assigned.
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8) |
Camera-images and varieties of the postmodern in photography, film and video
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Weekly readings will be assigned. |
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Digitization in photography and photographic practices and genre
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Weekly readings will be assigned. |
10) |
Digitization in film and film and video practices and genres
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Weekly readings will be assigned.
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11) |
Globalization and transculture in camera-image practices
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Weekly readings will be assigned.
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12) |
Assignment III
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Working on the assignments. |
13) |
Current debates in photography, film and video
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Weekly readings will be assigned. |
14) |
Presentation and discussion of visual essay assignments and revision
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Working on the presentations. |
Course Notes / Textbooks: |
Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History, 2nd edition, Laurence King, London, 2006; Ian Jeffrey, Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England, 1999; Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, The MIT Press, 1999.
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References: |
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum, NY):
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?s=all&t=all&d=photographs&x=21&y=15
Victoria and Albert Museum, Photography: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
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To be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication. |
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To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level. |
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To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them. |
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To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends. |
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5) |
To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner. |
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To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents. |
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To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content. |
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To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit. |
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To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication. |
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To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels. |
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