| Week One |
Introduction |
| January 8 |
Andrew Darley, Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle
in New Media Genre (1-58, 124-198)
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| Week Two |
Benjamin's Concept of Mechanical Reproducibility
I |
| January 15 |
Walter Benjamin, "TheWork of Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction" |
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| Week Three |
Benjamin's Concept of Mechanical Reproducibility
II |
| January 22 |
Walter Benjamin, "TheWork of Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction" |
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| Week Four |
Benjamin Reconsidered |
| January 29 |
Walter Benjamin, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire" |
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*Theodor W. Adorno, "On the Fetish-Character in
Music and the Regression of Listening" |
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| Week Five |
Perspective, Body, and the Modern Culture of Seeing |
| February 5 |
Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer |
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| Week Six |
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| February 12 |
No Class |
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| Week Seven |
Perceptions of Photography / Photographic Perceptions |
| February 19 |
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida |
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Susan Sontag, On Photography |
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| Week Eight |
Film: What is the Medium's Message? |
| February 26 |
Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter |
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| Week Nine |
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| March 5 |
No Class: Spring Break |
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| Week Ten |
Filming Photographic Reproduction: Three Test Cases |
| March 12 |
Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow Up |
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Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window |
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Michael Powell, Peeping Tom |
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| Week Eleven |
The Image and the Postmodern |
| March 19 |
*Jean Baudrillard, The Evil Demon of Images |
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*Fredric Jameson, "Transformations
of the Image in Postmodernity" |
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| Week Twelve |
Theorizing the Digital Image |
| March 26 |
*William J. Mitchell, The Reconfigured Eye: Visual
Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (1-57) |
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*Philip Rosen, "Old and New: Image, Indexicality,
and Historicity in the Digital Utopia" |
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| Week Thirteen |
Past vs. Present: How New are the New Media? |
| April 2 |
Jay Bolter and Richard Gruisin, Remediation: Understanding
New Media (2-87, 104-112, 132-159, 230-271) |
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| Week Fourteen |
Digitizing Photography: The Case of Andreas Gursky |
| April 9 |
*Peter Galassi, "Gursky's World" |
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| Week Fifteen |
Digital Culture: Act Globally, Think Locally? |
| April 16 |
Mark Poster, What's the Matter with the Internet? |
