Learning outcomes
The development of students’ knowledge and critical abilities in relation to the contemporary theoretical reason for photography developed in the context of Cultural Studies and Humanities
- Focus on the critical thinking required to understand the photographic production practice
- Developing skills for independent and personal learning
- Understanding the necessity of research and the inherent specificities of different methods for producing theoretical and art work.
- Ability to think and create structured concepts via reading theory texts
- Ability to produce theory assignments
- Ability to critical reading and analysing texts.
- Critical support of the project and its presentation
- Osmosis in a rich, varied, challenging and experimental production of work.
General Competences
- Research, analyze and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Decision making
- Autonomous work
- Teamwork
- Working in an international environment
- Exercise of criticism and self-criticism
- Project design and management
- Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
- Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Promote free, creative and inductive thinking
Course Outline
Lectures
The course aims at studying seminal theory texts of visual culture.
Thoughts on Representation
- Walter Benjamin- Various texts
- Siegfrid Kracauer –Various texts
- Michel Foucault- Various texts
- Peter Wollen- Various texts
- Roland Barthes- Various texts
- Christian Metz- Photography and the Fetish
- Laura Mulvey- Visual and Other Pleasures
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Andreadakis, S. N., & Vamvoukas, I. M. (2005). Guide to preparing and writing a written research paper. Athens: Atrapos.
- Manousou, E. (2017). The skills of students preparing postgraduate research work, Athens: Hellenic Network of Open and Distance Education. https://gellym.pressbooks.com/
- Bakirtzis, K. (2003). Communication and learning. Athens: Gutenberg.
- Benjamin, W. (1994) ‘Charles Baudelaire. A lyricist at the height of capitalism’ (mtf. G. Gouzoulis), Alexandria Publications, Athens.
- Language editing guide for writers (2014). Association of Greek Academic Libraries. Retrieved from https://www.openbook.gr/odigos-glwssikis-epimeleias-gia-syggrafeis/.
- Barthes, R., Image Music Text, Plethron Publications, 2007.