SPAN 1303

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SPAN 1303
FWS: Narcissism to Necrophilia: Spanish Photography and the Body

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

From the "selfies" captured on smartphones to the corpses and mangled  bodies in news outlets, as viewers we often drive pleasure from embodying the photograph or feel obligated to look at an image considered as taboo and controversial.  How do we construct meaning and make sense of a photograph?  What is the role of the spectator: invited participant or voyeur?  Readings will include essays from Ariella Azoulay, Roland Barthes, André Bazin, Walter Benjamin, John Berger, Susan Sontag and others who write on Photography.  Considering these texts, students conduct analyses of images advertising. "selfies," portraiture, post-mortem, pictorialism, documentary photography, and film.


When Offered Fall.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17585 SPAN 1303   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person