Ways of Viewing: Power, Control and the Moving Image

Course Descriptor and Assessment Brief We shape our tools. And afterwards, our tools shape us.’ Marshall McLuhan Today, we live in a world full of screens. You’re probably reading this sentence on one. I was looking at one when I wrote it. And all those screens show us all these images, which help form our view, literally, of the world. We live in a world of cameras too: you probably have one on your phone; and you can rarely walk down a city street without being caught on CCTV. Think for a moment about how powerful, or not, this makes you feel. How much control do you have over the moving image, including your own? On this course we will explore the relationship between the moving image and the culture which produces and consumes it. Drawing on a wide range of media theory, we will discuss how we participate willingly or otherwise – in the moving image, and examine the pleasures and woes created by our participation. Central to the course is a discussion of how the moving image shapes our notion of what is real and true, and influences our sense of being in the world. Assessment is in the form of an illustrated essay of approximately 1,800 words in response to the brief below. Essay Assessment Brief With reference to specific examples, and focusing on ideas of power and control, discuss how participation in the moving image has shaped your sense of yourself and of the wider world. In your essay you may choose to focus on a particular medium, such as television. Alternatively you may wish to compare and contrast different media for instance, film and computer games exploring the similarities and differences that characterise participation in these forms. Your argument should be supported by at least two credible secondary texts (not necessarily from the reading list), fully referenced, with a complete bibliography and list of sources consulted. Bibliography:: Books Baudrillard, Jean, Screened Out, tr. by Chris Turner, (London, New York: Verso, 2002) Baudrillard, Jean, Simulacra and Simulation, tr. by Sheila Faria Glaser, (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1994) Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, (London: Penguin Books/BBC, 1972) Culkin, John, A Schoolmans Guide to Marshall McLuhan, (New York: Saturday Review Inc., 1967) McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, (London: Routledge, 2001) Articles Benjamin, Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, in Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, ed. by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 520-527 Benjamin, Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, in Illuminations, ed. by Hannah Arendt, tr. by Harry Zohn, from the 1935 essay, (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), pp. 217-251 Websites ABC, The McLuhan Project. A website of Australian Broadcasting Corporation. (12/08/18) Armstrong, Keishin Jennifer, Why The Handmaids Tale is so relevant today. BBC Culture website. URL: (12/08/18) Loughrey, Clarisse, The Handmaids Tale: Women are channelling the classic book to protest the healthcare bill. The Independent Culture website. URL: (12/08/18) Muritshuis, Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665. Muritshuis website. URL: pearl-earring-670/. (19/03/2017) Ruban, Paul, Happy 500th birthday, Raphael cherubs. Online version of Canadian news magazine. Film and TV The Medium is the Message (Part 1). Marshall McLuhan, host Robert Moore. ABC, 1977. (ABC TV, 27/06/77) The Medium is the Message (Part 2). Marshall McLuhan, host Robert Moore. ABC, 1977. (ABC TV, 27/06/77). The Medium is the Message (Part 3). Marshall McLuhan, host Robert Moore. ABC, 1977. (ABC TV, 27/06/77) Ways of Seeing (Episode 2). Dir. John Berger and Mike Dibb. BBC2, 1972. (BBC4, 29/09/08)Books Barthes, Roland, (1993, [1957]), Mythologies, London: Vintage. **** Baudrillard, Jean,(1994), Simulacra and Simulation, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press. Benjamin, Walter, (1999), Illuminations, London: Pimlico. **** Berger, John (1972),Ways of Seeing, Harmondsworth: Penguin. **** Bignall, Jonathan, (2000), Postmodern Media Culture, Edinburgh: Edinburgh **** University Press. Bignall, Jonathan, (2005), Big Brother: Reality TV in the 21st Century, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Bolter, David J., Grusin, Richard, (2000), Remediation: Understanding New Media, Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT. Caughie, John, (ed.), (2001), Theories of Authorship: A Reader, London: Routledge. Dean, Jodi, (2009), Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics, Durham, NC: Duke University Press . Dean, Jodi, (2010), Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive, Oxford: Polity. Debord, Guy, (1992, [1967]), The Society of the Spectacle, London: Rebel. Devereux, Eoin, (ed.). (2007), Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates, Los Angeles, Calif., London: SAGE. Dyer, Richard, (1997), Stars, London: BFI. Dyer, Richard, (2004), Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society, 2nd edition, London: Routledge. Everett, Anna, Caldwell, John T., (eds.), (2003), New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality, London: Routledge. Hill, John, Church Gibson, Pamela, (2000), Film Studies: Critical Approaches, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fischer, Lucy, Landy, Marcia, (2004), Stars: The Film Reader, New York, London: Routledge. Hjorth, Larissa, (2011), Games and Gaming: An Introduction to New Media, [ebook], Oxford: Berg. Hooks, bell, (1994), Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, London: Routledge. Hooks, bell, (1996) Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies, New York, London: Routledge. Stphanie Jeanjean, (2011), ‘Disobedient Video in France in the 1970s: Video Production by Women’s Collectives’,Afterall 27 (Summer 2011) [e-journal]. Jenkins, Henry, (2006), Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, New York: New York University Press. Krauss, Rosalind, (1976), ‘Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissm’, in OCTOBER 1 (Spring, 1976), pp. 50-64, [e-journal]. Lister, Martin, (ed.), (2008), New Media: A Critical Introduction, 2nd edition, London: Routledge. McLuhan, Marshall, (1971, [1962]), The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographical Man, London: R&K Paul. McLuhan, Marshall, (2001, [1964]), Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, London: Routledge. Marris, Paul, Thornham, Sue, (1999), Media Studies: A Reader, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Mulvey, Laura, (1989), Visual and Other Pleasures, London: Macmillan. Mulvey, Laura, (2006), Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image, [ebook], London: Reaktion. Ranciere, Jacques, (2009), The Emancipated Spectator, London: Verso. Rayner, Philip, (2001), Kruger, Stephen (eds.), (2001), Media Studies: The Essential Introduction, London: Routledge. Rockhill, Gabriel, Watts, Philip (eds), (2009), Jacques Ranciere: History, Politics, Aesthetics, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Rosler, Martha, (2004), ‘Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment’, in Decoys and Disruptions: Selected writings, 1975-2001, Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2004, pp. 53-69. Shaviro, Steven, (1997), Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, London: Serpent’s Tail. Shaviro, Steven, (2010), Post-Cinematic Affect, Winchester: Zero Books. Sicart, Miguel, (2009, 2014), The Ethics of Computer Games, [e-book]. Smith, Richard G., Clarke, David B., (eds.), (2015), Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Studlar, Gaylyn, (1988), In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich and the Masochistic Aesthetic, New York: Columbia University Press. Sutton, Damian, Mackenzie, Ray, Brind, Sue (eds), (2007), The State of the Real: Aesthetics in the Digital Age, London: IB Taurius. Wagner, Anne, ‘Performance and the Rhetoric of Presence’, OCTOBER 91 (Winter 2000), pp. 59-90. [e-journal] Wark, Mackenzie, (2007), Gamer Theory, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press. Zizek, Slavoj, (2002), Welcome to the Desert of the Real, London: Verso. Zizek, Slavoj, (1999), The Zizek Reader, Oxford: Blackwell. Films and Videos (available on 24 hour short loan via the issue desk) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) Capricorn One (Peter Hyams, 1977) Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
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Discuss Crime Scenes in the Terrorist Age

Crimes scenes are no longer confined to relatively small spaces. In the attacks of 9/11 the collapse of the Twin Towers created the largest single crime scene processed. As a mass fatality incident, first responders were concerned first with rescue and then with recovery of human remains. It was a scene that integrated many forensic disciplines, from DNA analyst to forensic dentists and forensic engineers. Focus paper on crime scenes in the terrorist age.

Signature Assignment: Developing a Research Design Plan

Signature Assignment: Developing a Research Design Plan The class has been focused on business needs, research questions, and hypotheses. In the business world, these components are cumulated in a proposal or research design plan for review and documentation. The components of a research design plan can vary by organization, but all have similar components and are analogous to an academic research proposal. 1. Title 2. Business Need This section begins the discourse on the issue or topic; the business need incorporates the project aim, rationale, and objectives. This is similar to the Introduction section of an academic research paper. 3. Research Area This section of the research plan is analogous to the literature review and states the importance of the problem. In addition, it talks about previous research or cases related to the issue. This section provides context to the business need. 4. Research Question The research question narrows the focus on the business need into a specific, researchable question that can be answered by collecting data. 5. Hypothesis Your hypothesis provides an educated guess on the outcome of the analysis performed to answer the research question. 6. Methods and Procedures This section can focus on extant or primary collection of data. The research will document sources of data, procedures involved in data collection, tools utilized for analysis, and analyses to be performed. The aim is to provide enough information to allow another reader to follow the procedures and derive similar outcomes. This concludes the research plan outline. However, once the plan is approved, data collection begins. The data collection, analysis, and reporting complete the research process and data life cycle. In addition to the above components, the following would be added to complete the full research paper: 1. The Findings section is a culmination of the research and the most important part of the paper. This is the place to present a business proposition and to discuss its practical value. This section is the reason for doing the research; its value for the reader is the acquisition of new knowledge.

Using the information from the Internet Resources and MyPlate Supertracker on the MyPlate site, plan a one day vegan diet for yourself which provides sufficient energy (kcals) and major nutrients to meet your requirements. https://www.choosemyplate.gov/tools-supertracker

Using the information from the Internet Resources and MyPlate Supertracker on the MyPlate site, plan a one day vegan diet for yourself which provides sufficient energy (kcals) and major nutrients to meet your requirements. https://www.choosemyplate.gov/tools-supertracker

Describe Implications of Foreign Intelligence Interference in American Elections

The goal of your first assignment is to present a clear research project and should be between 4-5 pages (but not more) in length not including title page, your preliminary source list and references (of the sources you cite within your proposal). HW1 must be submitted as a Word Document Attachment in the Assignments section of the classroom by Sunday, 11:55pm EST at the end of week 2. Assignment Formatting: your assignments should follow the conventions of graduate level writing. This includes having 1 inch margins on all four sides, being double-spaced without an extra space in between paragraphs, using 12 point Times new Roman font, as well as being grammatically free and stylistically free of errors. You should be using the Turabian writing style for this assignment as well as all others within this course. For more information on writing style please review the course overview section of the course. There is no need for fancy cover sheets or pictures inside the document itself. In this assignment you will need to: 1) Present the research problem you intend assess and provide some contextual information that helps demonstrate your understanding of the nature of the problem. 2) Clearly state your SINGLE academically rich research question and hypothesis. 3) The purpose and importance of your research should be made clear. Explain why this is important to investigate as a research project. What can we learn from this event? How will the knowledge we gain through your research help our understanding of the topic? 4) Discuss your theoretical framework and research design you plan to use to answer your research question. This should be done in language common to the social sciences. Heres a hint as a case study you should be discussing how you plan to carry out case study research. Within this discussion the references you used to support your comments should reflect your knowledge of case study methodology, and content analysis including specifics on the application of qualitative or quantitative research. The research proposal that you submit for this class is similar in style to what you would submit as a research proposal for your masters thesis. The specific format to be followed has the following parts. These include: Title and Abstract: Your title should be descriptive enough that it helps readers understand what your research is about. Your abstract should stage for the research topic, explain the method in use, and mention important implications of the study. The abstract should be between 150-250 words in length. Introduction: Identifies students specific research question and sets the general context for the study. This section should include: a statement of the problem or general research question and context leading to a SINGLE clear statement of the specific research question; background and contextual material justifying why this case or topic should be studied; and a purpose statement and hypothesis Literature Review: Reviews the literature on a specific research question. The literature review focuses on discussing how other researchers have addressed the same or similar research questions. It introduces the study and places it in larger context that includes a discussion of why it is important to study this case. It provides the current state of accumulated knowledge as it relates to the students specific research question. Summarize the general state of the literature (cumulative knowledge base) on the specific research question. Include a short conclusion and transition to the next section. Theoretical Framework/Approach: The theoretical framework section develops the theories or models to be used in the study and shows how the student has developed testable research hypotheses. This section should include an introduction discussing gaps in the literature, how this study will help fill some of those gaps, and justification for the theory or model to be used in study; a summary of the theory or model to be used in the study, including a diagram of the model if appropriate Research Design/Methodology: Describes how the student will test the hypothesis and carry out his/her analysis. This section describes the data to be used to test the hypothesis, how the student will operationalize and collect data on his/her variables, and the analytic methods that will be used, noting potential biases and limitations to the research approach. Conclusion: this should be a concluding statement that reiterates the importance of the research question and why it should be carried out. References: as always you need to have a references lists which lists the sources you used within your research proposal in a professional manner. The references list is often what is used to gauge how well researched a project is. On this list we will be able to see if scholarly sources are being consulted or simply just news articles and magazine articles of lesser caliber. You should take pride in this list and show off your hard work in developing your research proposal. Ultimately a research proposal is a pitch to someone about a project that you have confidence can be carried out in the manner specified. Research proposals are often done in professional settings in order to gain a bid on resources such as grant money or other financial backing. For this reason, the information conveyed must not only articulate the you have found a clear research gap or problem that has yet to be adequately addressed, but that you have the capacity to complete the project as specified given the current time available
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Describe the differential diagnosis associated with the disorder as well as comorbidity.

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