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Cursus: ME3V15013
ME3V15013
Spaces and Screens
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeME3V15013
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
In this course students will practice: reading, analyzing and discussing academic texts; recognizing, describing, analyzing and discussing different screen phenomena; academic presentation skills- academic writing skills; academic collaboration. After successfully completing this course, students will be able to: recognize and better understand the relationship between (screen) technologies and practices, and the spatial and material conditions, and performative aspects of screen spectatorship; digest academic writing; 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. 
 
Inhoud
This course is about new and changing screens: cinematic “updates” as well as screens beyond the cinema. In this course we will investigate the relationship between screen technologies and culturally-embedded screen practices, specifically in public and urban contexts. Screen phenomena beside the classical cinematic screen that will be discussed and analyzed are: urban screens, mobile screens, VR and AR, video mapping and outdoor projections, interactive screen-based installations, and so-called media architecture. We will focus on change and innovation, as well as a comparison of different and/or converging media forms. Zooming in on moments when new spaces are created by new screens and screen-based constellations and their spatial design, the perspective that we will develop in this course is a historically-informed comparative analysis. 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 spectatorship. Starting points for our inquiries will be offered by current debates about digitization and techno-cultural change, questions about medium specificity, hybridity and convergence and about new (and interactive) forms of spectatorship.
 
Key words: comparative screen studies, dispositif, spectatorship. 
 
This course is part of the Advanced Trajectory (Verdiepingspakket) Film en Media Cultuur, as well as the Advanced Trajectory Comparative Media Studies, and builds on knowledge and skills introduced and trained in Basispakket 1 en 2 Media and Culture. In these Advanced Trajectories students deepen 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
specialization Comparative Media Studies.
 
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