Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
This
course aims to focus on the modalities of mass media by which hegemonic
construction of gender identities come to be realized. Topics include visual
“literacy”, social function of images, and the role of audio-visual, visual and
quasi-visual media in the cultural process. Explores the ways in which through
the medium of electronic communications narration of the predicaments of
humanity took very different forms and became pervasive for the construction of
social reality: through the medium of electronic communications fables,
fairy-tales, myths and legends were recreated while audio-visualized; “reality”
turned out to be some virtual moments on TV shows. Through the cyberspace
created by the screens of PCs linked on the internet communication, the realm
of public and private have become intermingled and thus fostered the emergence
of new patterns of contesting gender identities as well as the hegemonic ones.
Film, television, texts produced
through cyberspace, photography, and the graphic arts and also “women’s genres”
such as soap operas, romance novels and women’s magazines and their male
counterparts such as action movies, detective stories and men’s magazines as
objects of analysis and as research tools. Retrospective inquiries on the
selected topics will also be accepted to increase the hearing capacity of students
as well as their capacity of seeing things from a historical perspective. The
selection of problems will depend on the current research interest of students
and they will design and carry out their projects. Prerequisite: Soc.315,
courses in feminist theory, literature, film or permission of instructor.