Length: 3,000 words!
ESSAY QUESTIONS!
For your 3000-word essay you are asked to write about contemporary screen spectatorship by making a case study of a particular media screen and viewing situation. You will write a critical account of your chosen media screen, site and spectatorship that demonstrates a concrete application of concepts and theories of spectatorship encountered on the module.
Examples might include:
a screen-based installation at an art gallery
a specific screening event in a cinema or alternative space for moving image! presentation
screens located in specific public spaces
personal screens and devices used to experience specific forms of moving image!
media!
*Your case study should include the following theories and references discussed in the module:!
– Paradoxes of the Spectator and the Screen : Ranciere, Jacques. “The Emancipated Spectator.”
In The Emancipated Spectator. London: Verso, 2011. pp 1-23.
– The Gaze and the Glance:Barthes, Roland. “Leaving the Movie Theatre.” In The Rustle of
Language, translated by Howard, Richard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.!
– Screens and the Attention Economy:Beller, Jonathan. “Paying Attention.” Cabinet, no. 24 (Winter 2006).
– Tactile Encounters with the Moving Image :Marks, Laura U. “Video Haptics and Erotics.” In Touch:Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
– Ethics, Suffering and Spectatorship:Downing, Lisa, and Libby Saxton. “Ethics, Spectatorship and
the Spectacle of Suffering.” In Film and Ethics. New York: Routledge, 2009
– Moving Images and the (Im)mobility of Viewers:Mondloch, Kate. “Installing Time”. In Screens:Viewing Media Installation Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.!
– Screens and Publics – Part 1: Public Sphere and Experience :Hansen, Miriam. “Foreword.” In Oskar Negt, Alexander Kluge, Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1993.
– Screens and Publics – Part 2: The Transformation of Public Space :McCarthy, Anna. “Shaping Public and Private Space.” In Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
– Spectators and Spectres:Mulvey, Laura. “The Index and the Uncanny: Life and Death and the Photograph.” In Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image. London: Reaktion Books,2006.
*You are strongly encouraged where relevant to visit your chosen sites, observe people’s actions and interactions within a specific setting, participate yourself, document what you see
