{"id":2377,"date":"2024-11-07T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T13:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/?page_id=2377"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:33:16","slug":"visual-culture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/course\/visual-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Code: \u0395\u03a0 216<\/p>\n

Semester: 2, 4<\/p>\n

ECTS: 5<\/p>\n

Course Instructor: Konstantinos Kalantzis<\/a><\/p>\n

Adjunct Lecturer (spring semester 2024-2025): Sofia Grigoriadou<\/a><\/p>\n

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COURSE DESCRIPTION<\/h4>\n

This course introduces students to theoretical discussions concerning the role of visual culture and visual media in the social sciences. What is the potential of the visual as a medium and a platform for understanding social experience and for critiquing power? By focusing especially on film and photography, the course explores the potentials and limitations in the use of visual media and more widely of the scope of the visual in exploring and representing social life. Students are introduced to various theoretical debates and traditions and they engage different stylistic and aesthetic forms (documentary, commercial photography, postcolonial art) which the course relates to particular theoretical debates. The course is assessed with an oral exam at the end of term. Some questions pursued during the semester include: What are the possibilities and limitations that stem from the use of cameras in describing Other cultures? What are the political challenges and problems involved in the representation of Otherness? How can specific forms of visual style and structure produce different forms of analysis?<\/p>\n

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Keywords:<\/p>\n

film, photography, visual theory, sociocultural anthropology, visual practice, consumption, the senses, non-western visual theory, visual research methods.<\/p>\n

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SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/h4>\n
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  • Azoulay, Ariella. 2008.\u00a0The Civil Contract of Photograph<\/em>y<\/em>, New York: Zone Books.<\/li>\n
  • Banks, Marcus \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 Howard Morphy (\u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03bc.)\u00a0Rethinking Visual Anthropology<\/em>, New Haven: Yale University Press.<\/li>\n
  • Bourgois, Philippe and Jeffrey Schonberg. 2009.\u00a0Righteous Dopefiend<\/em>, Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/li>\n
  • Didi-Huberman, Georges. 2008. Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n
  • Grimshaw, Anna 2001. The Ethnographer\u2019s Eye,\u00a0Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology<\/em>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n
  • \u039a\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b6\u03ae\u03c2, \u039a\u03c9\u03bd\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03af\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2. 2013. \u201c\u039f\u03c0\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 \u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u03b9\u03c3\u03bc\u03cc\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u0391\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03af\u03b1\u00bb \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u00a0\u03a5\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 \u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u03b9\u03c3\u03bc\u03cc\u03c2<\/em>:\u00a0\u0397 \u0391\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03af\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7 \u03a7\u03ce\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03a0\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd<\/em>, \u0395. \u0393\u03b9\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03cd\u03c1\u03b7 (\u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03bc.), \u0391\u03b8\u03ae\u03bd\u03b1: \u0391\u03bb\u03b5\u03be\u03ac\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1.<\/li>\n
  • Kalantzis, Konstantinos. 2020\u00a0\u201cPicturing the Imaginable: Fantasy, Photography and Displacement in the Highland Cretan \u201cVillage.\u201d\u00a0Journal of Modern Greek Studies<\/em>\u00a038: 59\u201384.<\/li>\n
  • Pinney, Christopher. 2006. \u201cFour Types of Visual Culture.\u201d In\u00a0Handbook of Material Culture,<\/em>\u00a0edited by Chris Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Ku\u0308chler, Mike Rowlands, and Patricia Spyer, 131\u2013144. London: Sage<\/li>\n
  • Said, Edward W. 1978.\u00a0Orientalism<\/em>. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Code: \u0395\u03a0 216 Semester: 2, 4 ECTS: 5 Course Instructor: Konstantinos Kalantzis Adjunct Lecturer (spring semester 2024-2025): Sofia Grigoriadou   COURSE DESCRIPTION This course introduces students to theoretical discussions concerning the role of visual culture and visual media in the social sciences. What is the potential of the visual as a medium and a platform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":507,"parent":223,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2377","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2377\/revisions\/3615"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cult.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}