Course convenor
András Müllner
Course content
This course looks at different aspects of the media, focusing on theories of visuality, textuality, discoursivity, semiotics, oral and written cultures and sociology.
Indicative reading
Jack Goody – Ian Watt: The Consequences of Literacy, in Jack Goody (ed.): Literacy in Traditional Societies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1968, 27-42.
Raymond Williams: Television: technology and cultural form, Routledge, 2003.
Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Toward an Investigation), in Lenin and philosophy, and other essays, Monthly Review Press, 2001
Clifford Geertz: Ideology as a Cultural System, in The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973
Roland Barthes: Mythologies, Vintage Classics, 2009
Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995
Ernst Gombrich: The Visual Image, in The Image and the Eye, 1982.
Clifford Geertz: Art as a Cultural System, in Local knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology, Indiana University, Fontana Press, 1993