MCS510 THINKING THROUGH IMAGES
| Course Code: | 8160510 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Media and Cultural Studies |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AHMET RAŞİT KAYA |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Course Content
The course will be concerned in the appropriation of the "audio-visual" world: the end of the classical attitudes towards imagination and dominance of the "audio-visual" in the modern world, in culture, education and politics, up to the birth of television. Imagination now is a requirement to go beyond the world of images, a socio-political faculty, which has to be evolved critically. Such a valorization of the faculty to imagine is not the way in which the media today are organized and the mainstream cinema is practiced. The course will be a critique of images and clichés, which are constantly bombarding the actual human beings.