AH 103 - WAYS OF SEEING: Audiovisuality

Institution:

University of Rochester

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Description:

In this course students will ask questions such as, “How does a soundtrack-driven film like Pretty in Pink relate to recent art installations like Christian Marclay’s?” Looking at listening across cultural registers spanning high art and popular music, this course allows students to investigate the artistic and cultural importance of links between sight and sound. This approach to audiovisuality will hone students’ skills with formal and thematic investigation of art, asking for instance how particular works are structured by or elaborated through their combination of sound and image as well as what claims they might make about social differences like race, gender, or regional identity. We will look at a variety of art media as well as advertisements, film, and music packaging. The course will draw from the emerging field of sound studies as well as criticism representative of American studies, gender studies, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies as they pertain to listening.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rochester.edu

Phone Number:

(888) 822-2256

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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