HS. Film/Fernsehen/Neue Medien: Protest und Revolution in aktivistischen Bildmedien
Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian TedjasukmanaShortname: HS Film/TV/NeuMedien
Course No.: 05.054.16_930
Course Type: Hauptseminar
Requirements / organisational issues
Active and regular participation in all common assignments, especially intensive text reading, oral argumentation and discussion, participation in a presentation group, and, if applicable, the preparation of an academic term paper is required.Recommended reading list
Arendt, Hannah (1958) The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Contents
Current protest movements such as Extinction Rebellion or Black Lives Matter sometimes choose controversial means such as blockades in public spaces to draw attention to urgent social problems such as climate catastrophe or racist violence. The fact that these actions draw on democratic concepts with a considerable history, such as civil disobedience, and raise fundamental questions of the public sphere, political participation, and communication, hardly plays a role in the daily discourse of the mass media.Therefore, the seminar is dedicated to these and other aspects of democratic practice and considers them in the context of recent protest movements, political documentaries, and activist videos on social media. The focus is on the political theories of Hannah Arendt and other critical thinkers who address these questions in an original way and across ideological camps. Drawing on recent publications and films on Arendt’s dissident thought, the seminar in film and media studies explores the subsequent question of how audiovisual media create images of protest and revolution.
Additional information
ObjectiveThe goal of this undergraduate seminar is to think of public space politically, to emphasize protest and revolution as central democratic practices, to introduce film as a documentary and democratic protest practice, and to learn about Hannah Arendt’s political theory.
Method
The seminar relies on critical readings of theory, playfully reflected through argumentation exercises in debate format, as well as media ethnographic and film analytic explorations of current protest phenomena.
Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10/24/2023 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 10/31/2023 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 11/07/2023 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 11/14/2023 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 11/21/2023 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 11/28/2023 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 12/05/2023 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 12/12/2023 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 12/19/2023 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 01/09/2024 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 01/16/2024 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 01/23/2024 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 01/30/2024 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 02/06/2024 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |