FS40GB: PANOPTIC DIGITAL CULTURE B (2014-2015)

This course will explore the role of panoptic observation within film and the arts, and in contemporary society and trace its historical roots. The course will examine the way in which our society has embraced a public surveillance application of CCTV and web cam culture, augmented by digital cameras, the mobile phone camera and use of home web cams. Through a series of seminars and screenings, the course will study how this use of technology has impacted on social life, our aesthetic sensibility and our sense of personal and collective identity. Students will investigate this cultural practice by creating a video installation that maps an interpretative panoptic vision.

This course is available in 2014/15 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

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1st Attempt: Project assessment (40%); 2500-3000 word essay (40%); research presentation (10%); Seminar Assessment Mark (10%). Resit: not normally available

One non-assessed video project, which gives students an opportunity to hone their research and production skills before undertaking the second project, which is assessed.

The essay is completed during the course and written feedback will be provided. Verbal in-class feedback, including peer feedback, will be provided to the production teams on both the assessed and non-assessed projects, and students are also asked to provide peer-review written feedback. The tutor's written feedback on the assessed project is provided upon completion and marking.

None.