(dir. Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1971) The Conversation In this seminar we look at the links between cinema and surveillance and consider how technology extends our senses of sight and sound and shape our perception of the world around us. We start with ideas about phenomenology and film: the experience cinema has on the body beyond just its Film can be seen as a multi-sensory experience, ‘visual pleasures’. and discuss theoretical approaches for to sensations beyond we’ll analysing cinema’s appeal sight. then focus on film and the opportunities it creates for watching people, We’ll examining movements, listening in, and even impacting behaviour. The surveillance of citizens has been a longstanding part of state governance. the recording of our We’ll discuss activities as part of everyday security and the threats such forms of control bring to our civic freedoms. But consider how prosthetic technologies enhance our abilities to engage we’ll also with others and understand our own embodied experiences. Required reading: David (Buckingham: Lyon, ‘Introduction’, Surveillance Society Monitoring Everyday Life Open University Press, 2002). Michel trans. Alan Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Foucault, ‘Panopticism’, Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1995). as Cognitive Prosthesis: A Short History of the Lev Manovich ,’ Visual Technologies Externalization of the Mind’, The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a ed. by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006). Biocultural Future into The Conversation Twenty-five Journal of W. Russell Gray, ‘Tuning Years Later’, vol. 33. issue 2 (Fall 1999) 123-30. Popular Culture Suggested reading: Michelangelo Antonioni, The Architecture of Vision ed. by Carlo di Carlo and Giorgio Tinazzi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). David of Michelangelo Mellor, ‘“Fragments an unknowable whole”: Antonioni’s Incorporation of Contemporary Visualities in London, vol. 8, Visual Culture in Britain 1966’, no. 2 (2007), 45-61. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge, 2002). Frank and Media Theory- in P Tomasulo, ‘Phenomenology: Philosophy An Introduction’ vol. 12, no. 3, 1-8. Quarterly Review of Film and Video
The Conversation (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1971) In this seminar we look at the links between cinema and surveillance and consider how technology extends our senses of sight and sound and shape our perception of the world around us. We start with ideas about phenomenology and film: the experience cinema has on the body beyond just its ‘visual pleasures’. Film can be seen as a multi-sensory experience, and we’ll discuss theoretical approaches for analysing cinema’s appeal to sensations beyond sight. We’ll then focus on film and the opportunities it creates for watching people, examining movements, listening in, and even impacting behaviour. The surveillance of citizens has been a longstanding part of state governance. We’ll discuss the recording of our activities as part of everyday security and the threats such forms of control bring to our civic freedoms. But we’ll also consider how prosthetic technologies enhance our abilities to engage with others and understand our own embodied experiences. Required reading: David Lyon, ‘Introduction’, Surveillance Society Monitoring Everyday Life (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2002). Michel Foucault, ‘Panopticism’, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1995). Lev Manovich ,’ Visual Technologies as Cognitive Prosthesis: A Short History of the Externalization of the Mind’, The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future ed. by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006). W. Russell Gray, ‘Tuning into The Conversation Twenty-five Years Later’, Journal of Popular Culture vol. 33. issue 2 (Fall 1999) 123-30. Suggested reading: Michelangelo Antonioni, The Architecture of Vision ed. by Carlo di Carlo and Giorgio Tinazzi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). David Mellor, ‘“Fragments of an unknowable whole”: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Incorporation of Contemporary Visualities in London, 1966’, Visual Culture in Britain vol. 8, no. 2 (2007), 45-61. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge, 2002). Frank P Tomasulo, ‘Phenomenology: Philosophy and Media Theory- An Introduction’ in Quarterly Review of Film and Video vol. 12, no. 3, 1-8.
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