syllabus

電影符號學 (Film and Media Semiotics)
影像傳播學系輔系 (Minor, Communication Arts, FJU)

唐維敏
csalbert@mails.fju.edu.tw, office: ES 712, 29052814

Albert:Background Info
English literature
Master in Media Studies (visual communication, critical theory, Cultural Studies)
doctoral studies in Complit (chinese cinemas, visual cultural studies, Taiwan lit)

Translator, about 8 books in the field of communication, media and cultural studies: notably,
on critical media studies, postmodernism, cultural studies.

Albert: Research interests / Courses taught
Visual Communication (aka viscom視覺傳播),
Media and Cultural Studies (film and other media, such as TV, pop music, ads, internet)
(e.g. 電影與文化研究)
Literary/ cultural/ social theories & practices(e.g.影視文學)
Film studies (e.g. 中國大陸電影)
Critical comm theory(e.g. 傳播理論)
film genre類型電影
chinese cinemas 華語電影

I. Goal
semiotic tradition:
1.conceptual understanding
2.application and renovation
3.further thoughtsKey

resourceshttp://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html

II.Requirement
(課程參與/ 課堂準備/ 課堂報告)

A. 批判性觀影實踐: critical (re-)viewing 40%
1. 舊影重溫: 影像符號角度的歷史結構的交疊視野
2. 電影大師: 作者論與符號學的社會/個人主體性論域
3. 在光影中漫舞: 影像實踐與文化創意的在地體現
4. 男生女相: 性/別, 族裔, 國族在球/土化情境下的符號再現與混雜再現

B. 小組讀書報告: group reports: 30%

Powerpoint presentation (15 mins) on (semiotics theory and practices電影符號學)
abstracts / outline should be posted onto the website (time? Arpil 7?)
In-depth interpretation/Keenness in application

C. Personal project: 專題論文一篇 30%
proposals: (at least TWO films, 華語電影 vs. 其他)
due in early June

D. class or off-class Screening
Cinema verite (documentary drama)
Lord of Ring (production)
Joris Ivens (and China)
Taiwan's directors (feature films)
local/ important documentary (e.g. 生命, 石頭夢, 角色)


E. No non-excused absences over THREE times.



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Understanding Media Semiotics
符號學和視覺素養 II.
Shot-reversed Shot
Shoulder-to shoulder shot
CompositionClose-upLong shot
Camera angleCamera movement

符號學和視覺素養 III
符號學和語言學
意義指陳: 意指/ 意符符號/ 符碼語言行動/ 語言系統
符號學和廣告行銷
符號學和媒體美學

電影符號解析
Semiotics w/ other cultural studies perspectives
Genre/ feminist/ ideologies/ psychoanalysis
Post-ologies (postmodern,Post-colonial)glocalist)
Semiotics: basic methodological path
seeing/seen antagonism
fetishism
visual anthropology
Digital aesthetics
voyeurism
commodification
visuality
sexuality