Nur der Kurs von Frau Seibel kann von Studierenden besucht werden, die das Zertifikat "Gender Studies" erwerben möchten.
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Kurs Frau Dr. Steveker
Erste Sitzung: 24. April 2017
Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.
Putting a particularly strong focus on film studies, this course will introduce you to various aspects of media history, media theory and media analysis. We are going to discuss texts on media/film theory and criticism, and we will analyse films. We will focus on filmic negotiations of Britishness in various forms. Reading texts and watching films in preparation for each class is obligatory for all students who would like to participate in this course.
In order to gain credit for this course, students will have to do a case study (group work) which they will have to present in class.
Texts:
A pdf-reader will be made available via Moodle.
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Kurs Frau Seibel
Geek Feminism and American Television
”There’s a revolution going on. We’re seeing some of the loudest and most violent of its battles inside a seemingly strange place: fan and creator communities of science fiction and fantasy media” (13). This is how Kameron Hurley begins the introduction to her collection of essays titled The Geek Feminist Revolution. In the introduction as well as throughout the rest of the book, Hurley draws attention to the fact that some of the most intense negotiations of female representations and feminist agendas currently happen within contexts associated with the idea of geekdom. In this course, we will zoom in on these negotiations and the various ways in which they are being carried out in North American television. While doing so, we will consider and critically engage with both of the main meanings attached to the concept of geekdom: the love of the popular and the love of the scientific (in Stephen H. Segal’s words, ”the love of myth stuff” and ”the love of math stuff”). We will look both at the representations of women and geekdom in American cult television as well as at the American cult TV as a geek space where feminist issues are being discussed and negotiated. While this will be the overarching theme of the course, its main aim is to provide students with a set of tools for an informed analysis of television texts, as well as with an understanding of basic principles and dynamics which define television as a medium and a field of cultural production.
Following TV shows will serve as our primary material:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003, created by Joss Whedon)
Dollhouse (2009-2010, created by Joss Whedon)
Orphan Black (2013-present, created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett)
Jessica Jones (2015-present, created by Melissa Rosenberg)
In order to receive credit for this course, you will have to present a case study of relevant aspect(s) of one of the TV shows. Participation in class discussions and regular attendance will be expected. If you are not familiar with the TV series on the list, please make sure that you start watching well in advance of the course, as some of them are quite long.
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