Introduction to Media Studies
SoSe 2011Mag. Klaus Heissenberger
North American Literary and Cultural Studies Universität des Saarlandes
The circuit of culture
Paul Du Gay, Stuart Hall, Linda Janes, Hugh Mackay, und Keith Negus. Doing Cultural Studies. The Story of the Sony Walkman. London: Sahe/The Open University, 1997.
Pretty Woman
(Gary Marshall, 1990)
Observation task: What is shown in which
order? In which ways?
HOW are the introductory scenes filmed?
... Esp. camera position
Looking and visual culture
gender:
Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975)Concept of the ‘male gaze’:
pleasure in mainstream cinema (e.g. Hollywood) is produced via a male/masculine viewing position:male gaze = controlling, voyeuristic and narcissistic look which identifies with the camera position
feminist project: “destruction of pleasure”-----------------------------reader: Sturken/Cartwright
Gender in/and the media: other approaches
Visual media: Looking, spectatorship, power
e.g. Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Gender in/and the media: other approaches
Visual media: Looking, spectatorship, power
e.g. Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
power/knowledge + the bodypleasurable production of self (subject)self-regulationbody emits signs: signifies its relation to
social norms