0345 - Selected Topics in Gender Studies
Subject(s) Diploma Programs
Instructors:Univ.Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger
Type:PI
Weekly hours:2
Members (max.):2
Registration period:02/05/10 to 03/04/10
Class objective(s) (learning outcomes)
The topic of this course is the exploration of gendered images in popular and everyday media like TV or different formats on the Internet in the era of Web 2.0.
Teaching and learning method(s)
This semester the course will take part as a workshop in cooperation with Prof. Richard, a guest researcher from the University of Frankfurt.
Criteria for successful completion
- Group presentation of a clip analysis and
- Interview at the end of the course: bring your own clip with you (advertising or video clip, YouTube Clip (most viewed, favorite, most discussed)
Availability of instructor(s) for contact by students
email: mailto:Edeltraud.Hanappi-Egger@wu-wien.ac.at
Detailed schedule
Day Date Time Room
Monday 03/15/10 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM SR 2.27 (B)
Tuesday 03/16/10 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM VR Bibl. I (A)
Tuesday 03/16/10 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM SR 5.43 (A)
Wednesday 03/17/10 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM SR 2.17 (A)
Wednesday 03/17/10 03:00 PM - 06:00 PM SR 2.25 (B)
Thursday 03/18/10 10:00 AM - 01:30 PM SR 2.25 (B)
Friday 03/19/10 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM SR 2.27 (B)
Contents

The main content of this course are two forms of moving images that can be used as marketing tools. In video clips this intention is often hidden. Not all clips broadcasted frequently are focused on gender explicitly although it is common to view gender relations in nearly every TV ad because consumers´ goods are seldom gender neutral. The course indicates a lot of examples and introduces the method of interpreting these kinds of images with regard to the production context. The participants will be able to conduct an analysis on their own and present it at the end of the course. Students will work together in small working groups to intensify the research by means of clips.

Unit Date Contents
1 15.03.2010 General introduction to the field
Clip history and aim of the course
2 16.03.2010 Economic conditions clip music-video and TV advertising
Connectivity: popular culture – advertising – Art-film clip examples with gender focus, introduction to pictorial clip analysis

Individual research and free discussions in small working groups
Collecting of examples I

3 17.03.2010 Guided group analysis of clips, focused exercises on examples
IKEA, Siemens X-libri and new campaigns
4 18.03.2010 Group analysis presentations, presenting of the results of a critical analysis

Research in small working groups, collecting of examples, Analysis II
Practicing interviews

5 19.03.2010 Interviews on chosen clips from own cultural background and home countries, individual final exams on a chosen clip


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