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Visual Studies Courses
University of california, Irvine
Visual Studies Core Courses

Fall Quarter
Dept Course No., Title   Instructor
VIS STD (F08)291  VISION & VISUALITYLIU, C.

This seminar will survey a variety of theories of vision and visuality in order to forge new analytic tools for the study of visual artifacts and experiences. Because the seminar will examine these issues from the perspectives of both Art History and Film Studies--two disciplines that, despite their shared interests, consist of different methodogical traditions and theoretical trajectories--the optical paradigm of the binocular will serve as the ruling metaphor for the course. The readings have been grouped around the major debates that characterize the emerging discipline of visual studies. Our seminar discussions are intended to address the binocular parallax implicit in such a course--between Art History and Film Studies, between objects and processes, between high art and popular culture, between modernity and post-modernity, between male and female, and so forth--in the hopes of establishing a stereopsis whereby separate fields of study, objects of vision, historical perspectives, gendered positions, and so forth, become deeper, more dimensional, more alive.

VIS STD (F08)295  ART & GLOBALIZATIONWINTHER, D.

This seminar engages recent political and cultural theories of globalization and trans-nationalism to developments in modern and contemporary art and visual culture. Japan and other national communities of art will be examined with the aim of de-centering conventional geographies of modern art. Additional aims of this seminar include ascertaining degrees of globalization in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century networks of art, studying works of art as heuristic devices for understanding phenomena of globalization, and assessing the critique of globalization in contemporary art practice.

VIS STD (F08)295  SEX SCENES: SEXUALITIES, IMAGES, PUBLICSHILDERBRAND, L.

From centerfolds to censorship, secret museums to porno-chic, this course explores how sex has been imagined and imaged in the public sphere, and the ways that pornography has inspired both regulatory repression and opened up new ways of thinking about sex. Sex scenes queries what’s at stake in making sex visible and suggests the importance of seeing sex and sexuality everywhere: beyond the bedroom in public life and political debates. Readings will include work by Michel Foucault, Michael Warner, Linda Williams, Laura Kipnis, Richard Meyer, and many others.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGPATEL, A.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGHATCH, K.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGBRYAN-WILSON, J.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGGONOSOVA, A.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGHERBERT, J.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGCOOKS CUMBO, B.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGMILES, M.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGRONY, F.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGSTEIN, S.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGLIU, C.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGWINTHER, D.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGPOSTER, M.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGLIM, F.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGKRAPP, P.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGJOHNSON, V.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGAMIRAN, E.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGHALL, J.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGWHITING, C.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGDIMENDBERG, E.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGBENAMOU, C.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGHATCH, K.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGHILDERBRAND, L.

VIS STD (F08)296  DIRECTED READINGSTAFF

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGBRYAN-WILSON, J.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGSEXTON, J.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGPATEL, A.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGGONOSOVA, A.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGHERBERT, J.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGHATCH, K.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGMILES, M.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGRONY, F.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGSTEIN, S.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGLIU, C.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGWINTHER, D.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGPOSTER, M.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGLIM, F.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGJOHNSON, V.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGMIMURA, G.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGCOOKS CUMBO, B.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGWHITING, C.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGKRAPP, P.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGDIMENDBERG, E.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGHALL, J.M.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGBENAMOU, C.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGHATCH, K.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGHILDERBRAND, L.

VIS STD (F08)298  COMPREHN EX READINGSTAFF

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHBRYAN-WILSON, J.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHPATEL, A.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHHATCH, K.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHGONOSOVA, A.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHHERBERT, J.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHCOOKS CUMBO, B.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHMILES, M.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHRONY, F.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHSTEIN, S.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHLIU, C.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHWINTHER, D.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHPOSTER, M.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHJOHNSON, V.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHHALL, J.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHSTAFF

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHWHITING, C.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHKRAPP, P.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHDIMENDBERG, E.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHBENAMOU, C.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHHATCH, K.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHHILDERBRAND, L.

VIS STD (F08)299  DISSERTATION RESRCHSTAFF