ࡱ> EGD %bjbj?? 2]]pp33333GGGGGcG%Z77777 W c!! 3k77kow3377wwws3737wkww:,33pC?4G=:D  0%NR+"w+"w3kkkp :   SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION SIMPON FRASER UNIVERSITY COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION QUESTIONS FOR KJETIL RODJE Supervisors: Kirsten McAllister (senior supervisor); Adam Frank (UBC); Jan Marontate (SFU) I. WRITTEN EXAM Questions Delivered: November 13th 2007 10AM Answers Due: November 20th 2007 10AM provide hardcopies and email copies to McAllister ( HYPERLINK "mailto:kmcallis@sfu.ca" kmcallis@sfu.ca), Frank ( HYPERLINK "mailto:adafrank@interchange.ubc.ca" adafrank@interchange.ubc.ca), Marontate ( HYPERLINK "mailto:jmaronta@sfu.ca" jmaronta@sfu.ca) and  HYPERLINK "mailto:gradcmns@sfu.ca" gradcmns@sfu.ca (Denise Vanderwolf)) II. ORAL EXAMINATION December 3rd 1:00PM Room HC3025 Downtown Harbour Centre Campus . I. WRITTEN EXAM FOUR QUESTIONS IN TOTAL; 2500-3000 words each .. Comprehensive #1 Visual Expressions Answer two of the following questions: 1. Discuss the debates over the nature of the relationship between visual images and text. To what extent would you argue it is useful to approach images and text conceptually and methodologically as distinct (or necessarily linked) forms of communication? To answer this question, ensure you review the criticisms of semiotics as a method to conceptualize and anaylze images as well as Bal's accusation of visual essentialism. 2. What are the relations between vision and ways of knowing? Reflect on the epistemological issues and debates about the role of the visual in (a) knowledge production as well as (b) the disruption of knowledge. Relate this to discussions of case studies and theories of modes of seeing, scopic regimes, etc. 3. Compare and contrast key theories of embodied perception, and their relevance for studies of the visual. How do theories of embodied perception relate the visual and the visceral (that is the interplay of the visual with haptic and other extravisual sensory experiences)? 4. Discuss how psychoanalytic theories of the gaze OR Foucaults theory of vision differs from (or is related to) phenomenological theories that that conceptualize vision in terms of perception. In particular, focus on how the subject/object is constituted through the gaze in contrast to how the subject is formed through perception. Note feminist and postcolonial theories of perception (e.g., the work of Marks), where issues of culture and difference are theorized. 5. If Visual Studies offers methods to examine historical and socio-technical formations of visual objects and experiences, how does it account for and theorize what is invisible and un-utterable (p. 6 of Definition)? Consider what poststructuralists argue eludes and in some cases defies both visual technologies (e.g., technologies of surveillance), the social basis of communicative acts (e.g., traumatic experiences) or experiences that defy our cultural logic, and in doing so, remains virtual (a capacity or potentiality). Comprehensive #2 Theoretical Approaches to Affect within Cultural Studies Answer two of the following: 1. With the turn to affect in recent cultural studies comes a new opening for the place of biology in criticism. This marks a major break with an earlier rejection of the biological as a relevant category for the study of culture. Discuss the place of the biological in different theories of affect. How do these theories understand the body and its relation to affect? How do they articulate the connection between physiological and social experience? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this opening of the field to biological understanding? 2. Describe the contemporary turn to affect in cultural studies with specific reference to methodology: what difference might the variety of approaches to affect make for practices of cultural criticism? What new research or reading methods might the new approaches to affect bring to the study of culture, or to specific aspects of this study? How would these differ from previous methods, those associated with ideology critique or semiological reading, and what might they have in common with these methods? 3. Psychoanalytic theory has been one of the major influences in western critical thinking in the twentieth-century. In what specific ways has Freuds writing been important (both positively and negatively) for different recent theories of affect? In your discussion, be careful to distinguish primary work of Freud from its particular jo Spence Museum specimens interpretations by later theorists (such as Lacan, for example). 4. If Cultural Studies were to turn its attention to the operation of affect rather than just the operation of meaning describe how the analysis of Cultural Studies key themes, including power/control (ideology, the gaze or discipline, for example), difference (cultural/racial or sexual, for example) and the formation of subjects would change (or become irrelevant). To explain, compare and contrast how a reading of affect would differ from a semiotic reading (or disciplinary or psychoanalytic, etc.) of one of the images below (as per its location on its website) or select your own image. Include the image with your answer. Popular Cinema: Orcs or Uruk-hai from Lord of the Rings  HYPERLINK "http://www.lordoftherings.net/legend/cultures/" http://www.lordoftherings.net/legend/cultures/ Popular websites: Rats/Food  HYPERLINK "http://businessofemotions.typepad.com/drrm/disgust/index.html" http://businessofemotions.typepad.com/drrm/disgust/index.html The Body and Deformities: Arthritis  HYPERLINK "http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/immunology/Students/spring2006/Dresser/RA.html" http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/immunology/Students/spring2006/Dresser/RA.html Displaying Preserved Bodies: BBC & Mummies from Other Cultures  HYPERLINK "http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/mummies_06.shtml" http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/mummies_06.shtml One of the images from the Guardian Unlimiteds Worldview 24 hours  HYPERLINK "http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/nov/08/internationalnews1?picture=331205862" http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/nov/08/internationalnews1?picture=331205862 News story on China and pollution:  HYPERLINK "http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.foxnews.com/images/241243/1_61_112206_yellow_river1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,231302,00.html&h=240&w=320&sz=19&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=26kXKkcM2N1SUM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchina%2Bpollution%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN" http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.foxnews.com/images/241243/1_61_112206_yellow_river1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,231302,00.html&h=240&w=320&sz=19&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=26kXKkcM2N1SUM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchina%2Bpollution%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN 5. 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