Master in Visual Culture
This master's programme aims to strenghten the student's theoretical
knowledge and understanding of the vital importance of images – or, the
visual – for communication in society. Here, this visuality is studied
from a critical and intermedial perspective, which includes elements of
sound or music, and where aspects like power, history, social relations,
gender, and ethnicity are central. The programme is mainly constructed
as an interdisciplinary combination of Art History and Visual Studies,
Film Studies, and Musicology.
Furthermore, the aim is to analyze
the role of visual communication (and to some extent, its auditory
reinforcements) – in artistic as well as mass medial forms – when it
comes to shaping the major issues of life. Critical attention will be
given both to aesthetic and commercial dimensions. A major part of the
programme will focus on mass culture, for instance, moving pictures in
the shape of film, video, and television as well as stills of various
kinds, for example, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and design
products. Also, there is one special course – which can be individually
selected – that deals particularly with sounds and their role for
communication, especially when they are intermedially combined with
visual expressions.
The programme is aimed to contribute to the
general development of knowledge – pertaining to society as a whole as
well as to the individual student – by providing intermedial insights
into genres and cultural forms built on images, visuality and seeing:
documentary images, news images, art works, scientific images,
entertainment, commercials, in various media like film, television, art,
city planning, and design. The programme will provide knowledge of new
media forms aimed to fascinate, persuade, and overwhelm the subject in a
new culture of experience. The programme will also provide the basis for
a critical discussion of the increased competition for attention created
by modern consumer culture.
In his/her professional life, the
student is supposed to be able to actively mediate his/her knowledge of
the visual field, thereby satisfying society's needs for critical tools
of analysis.
Last modified 15 Dec 2008
HAVCU
Master in Visual Culture 120 ECTS credits
This Master Programme is given as an collaboration between the Centre
for Languages and Literature (Division of Film Studies) and the Division
of Art History and Musicology.
Phone:
+46 46-2228487
E-mail:
Erik.Hedling@litt.lu.se
Phone:
+46 46-2228396
E-mail:
Ann-Charlotte.Weimarck
@kultur.lu.se