HIF-3111—Manufacturing Monsters: Othering through Constructing Evil 1
Overview
Idea: One theory part, three case studies on specific topics.
Introduction
—Organization, arbeidskrav and so on.
Theory
—Theoretical framework and tools: What is a monster? Making/manufacturing/creating monsters.
Arbeidskrav I
—Individual presentations in front of the plenum (including a handout; 1–2 pages).
Case studies
—Three case studies that will be analyzed one after another.
With Emil
With Yngvild
With Juliane
With Christian
MONSTERS
AND VIDEO GAMES
MONSTERS AND FILM
MONSTERS
AND DOCUMENTARY
MONSTERS AND IR*
Digital: Othering, Orientalism & Oppression
Identify them.
Define them.
Conserve them.
Examine them.
Hitlerization,
Holocaustization,
Digital: Pasts, Presents, Phutures
Interpret them.
Mediate them.
and the Making of Monsters.
(What is a film monster? Does it
have to be supernatural, or can any
kind of deviant character be described as a monster on film?
What we define as monsters
changes according to culture and
Unfortunately
through time. It is possible to
not
this semester
speak of monster
evolution and of
monsters waging a cultural war
against each other, taking over the
territories of the defeated ones, and
thus making the world of imaginary monsters more homogenous.
And that’s a pity!)
(The creation of the beast Tirpitz
by German and British media during WWII and its mediation in
contemporary documentaries. Reflection on reciprocal influence of
memory and mediation.)
(On tyrants, butchers, devils, maniacs and other evil agents. The
act of naming and framing today’s
Assads, Gadhafis, Ahmadinejads,
Putins et al. as a segregating power
instrument within international relations.)
Digital: Cultural Imperialism & Empire
(On the Othering monster: Digital
media as symptomatic of the structural oppression of identities such
as race, gender, and social class.
By looking at production, textual
analysis, and end-users of digital
games do we draw out power hierarchies and the Othering of identities.)
Arbeidskrav II
—Abstract which could later be developed into a home exam (including presentations).
Back to theory
—Consolidation, outlook, reflecting Monsterization—The Manufacture of Monsters; and its adaption.
Semester-long home exam
—Individual writing, with group support; basis: (i) AkII; (ii) 650 pages compendium; (iii) 350 pages research.
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Compendium: 650 pages (130 pages for each case; plus 260 pages theory). Every student has to research 350 pages in addition.
Literature on theory
Justification and Reasoning.
(Suggestions Emil; 11/2016)
Butler, Judith. 1997. ‘Merely Cultural’, Social Text 15:3/4 (issue:
‘Queer Transexions of Race, Nation, and Gender’), 265–277 [13].
Landsberg, Alison. 2009.
‘Memory, Empathy, and the Politics of Identification’, International Journal of Politics, Culture,
and Society 22:2, 221–229 [9].
Molden, Berthold. 2016. ‘Resistant Pasts versus Mnemonic Hegemony. On the Power Relations
of Collective Memory’, Memory
Studies 9:2, 125–142 [18].
Van Dijk, Teun A. 1989. ‘Structures of Discourse and Structures
of Power’, in Communication
Yearbook 12, edited by James A.
Anderson. Newbury Park: Sage,
18–59 [42].
Theorizing Monsters.
(Suggestions Yngvild; 11/2016)
Unfortunately
not
this T.
semester
Asma, Stephen
2009. On Monsters. An Unnatural History of our
Worst Fear. Oxford: Oxford University Press (mandatory: ‘The Art
of Human Vulnerability. Angst
and Horror’, 183–203) [21].
Recapitulation of Memory:
Public Opinion,
Studies and View on Int.
Memory Making Media.
Published Opinion,
Manufactured Consent.
(Suggestions Juliane; 11/2016)
(Suggestions Christian; 11/2016)
Assmann, Aleida. 2014. ‘Transnational Memories’, European Review 22:4, 546–556 [11].
Chomsky, Noam. 2000. ‘States of
Concern’, Index on Censorship
29:5 (issue: ‘Manufacturing Monsters’), 44–48 [5].
Evans, Owen. 2010. ‘Redeeming
the Demon? The Legacy of the
Stasi in Das Leben der Anderen’,
Memory Studies 3:2, 164–177 [14].
Warner, Marina. 2007. Monsters
of Our Own Making. The Peculiar
Pleasures of Fear. Lexington: The
University of Kentucky Press
(mandatory: ‘Introduction’, 4–19)
[16].
Halbwachs, Maurice. 1992. On
Collective Memory, edited and
translated by Lewis A. Coser. Chicago/London: The University of
Chicago Press (mandatory: ‘Preface’; chapters I.1–I.4, 37–53) [17].
-----------------------------------------Reading, Anna. 2011. ‘Identity,
Memory and Cosmopolitanism.
The Otherness of the Past and a
Right to Memory?’, European
Journal of Cultural Studies 14:4,
379–394. [16].
Price, Vincent. 1992. Public Opinion. London: Sage (mandatory:
‘The Crowd’, ‘The Public’, ‘The
Mass’, 24–28) [5].
Reinke de Buitrago, Sybille. 2012.
‘Othering in International Relations. Significance and Implications’, in Portraying the Other in
International Relations. Cases of
Othering, Their Dynamics and the
Potential for Transformation, edited by Sybille Reinke de Buitrago. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, xiii–
xxv [13].
Sturken, Marita. 2008. ‘Memory,
Consumerism and Media. Reflections on the Emergence of the
Field’, Memory Studies 1:1, 73–78
[6].
82 pages.
Herman, Edward S., and Noam
Chomsky. 1988. Manufacturing
Consent. The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books (mandatory: ‘A Propaganda Model’, 1–35) [35].
59 pages.
42 pages.
58 pages.
Obs! This section is just divided into Emil’s ideas—Yngvild’s ideas—Christian’s ideas—Juliane’s ideas. It does not represent the later theory-section structure.
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Literature on the cases
With Emil
With Yngvild
With Juliane
With Christian
MONSTERS AND VIDEO GAMES
MONSTERS AND FILM
MONSTERS AND DOCUMENTARY
MONSTERS AND IR*
Digital: Cultural Imperialism & Empire
Identify them.
Conserve them.
Hitlerization,
Define them.
Interpret them.
Examine them.
Mediate them.
Holocaustization,
and the Making of Monsters.
Tudor, Andrew. 1989. Monsters
and Mad Scientists. A Cultural
History of the Horror Movie. Oxford/Cambridge: Basil Blackwell
(mandatory: ‘Events—Characters—Settings’, 107–130) [24].
Brunow, Dagmar. 2015. Remediating Transcultural Memory. Documentary Filmmaking as Archival
Intervention. Berlin: De Gruyter
(mandatory: ‘Reworking the Archive’, 100–148) [49].
Barr, James. 2012. A Line in the
Sand. Britain, France and the
Struggle that Shaped the Middle
East. London: Simon & Schuster
(mandatory: ‘Prologue’, 1–4; ‘The
Carve-Up. 1915–1919’, 5–19) [19].
Unfortunately
not this semester
Jones, Sara. 2013. ‘Memory on
Film. Testimony and Constructions of Authenticity in Documentaries about the German Democratic Republic’, European Journal of Cultural Studies 16:2, 194–
210 [17].
Buzan, Barry, Ole Wæver, and
Jaap de Wilde. 1998. Security. A
New Framework for Analysis.
Boulder/London: Lynne Rienner
(mandatory: ‘Introduction’, 1–37;
‘Conclusions’, 195–214) [57].
Digital: Othering, Orientalism & Oppression
Digital: Pasts, Presents, Phutures
Brock, André. 2011. ‘‘When
Keeping It Real Goes Wrong’.
Residents Evil 5, Racial Representation, and Gamers’, Games and
Culture 6:5, 429–452 [24].
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2002. Black
Feminist Thought. Knowledge,
Consciousness, and the Politics of
Empowerment. New York/London: Routledge (mandatory: ‘Towards a Politics of Empowerment’, 290–307) [18].
Cooke, Laquana, and Gaines S.
Hubbell. 2015. ‘Working Out
Memory with a Medal of Honor
Complex’, Game Studies 15:2, n.p.
[online only; ~18].
Sørenssen, Bjørn. 2013. ‘The Forgotten Cinematographer of Mount
Suribachi. Bill Genaust’s EightSecond Iwo Jima Footage and the
Historical Facsimile’, in Eastwood’s Iwo Jima. Critical Engagement with Flags of Our Fathers
and Letters of Iwo Jima, edited by
Rikke Schubart and Anne
Gjelsvik. New York/Chichester:
Columbia University Press, 36–57
[22].
Mir, Rebecca, and Trevor Owens.
2013. ‘Modeling Indigenous Peoples. Unpacking Ideology in Sid
Meier’s Colonization’, in Playing
with the Past. Digital Games and
the Simulation of History, edited
by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and
Andrew B. R. Elliott. London:
Bloomsbury, 91–106 [16].
Mukherjee, Souvik. 2016. ‘Playing
Subaltern. Video Games and Postcolonialism’, Games and Culture
[online before print: February 9],
1–17 [17].
De Jesus, Diego Santos Vieira.
2012. ‘Tyrants, Radicals and Other
Threats. An Essay on Civilization
and Violence in U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Iraq’, in Portraying
the Other in International Relations. Cases of Othering, Their
Dynamics and the Potential for
Transformation, edited by Sybille
Reinke de Buitrago. Newcastle
upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 75–90 [16].
Saʿīd, Idwārd Wadīʿ. 2003 [1978].
Orientalism. London: Penguin
Classics (mandatory: ‘Introduction’, 1–28) [28].
———. 2000. ‘Apocalypse Now’,
Index on Censorship 29:5 (issue:
‘Manufacturing Monsters’), 49–53
[5].
Nakamura, Lisa. 2012. ‘Queer Female of Color. The Highest Difficulty Setting There is? Gaming
Rhetoric as Gender Capital’, Ada
1:1, n.p. [online only; ~4].
Williams, Michael C. 2003.
‘Words, Images, Enemies. Securitization and International Politics’,
International Studies Quarterly
47:1, 511–531 [21].
Nichols, Randy. 2013. ‘Who Pays,
Who Plays? Mapping Video Game
Production and Consumption
Globally’, in Gaming Globally.
Production, Play, and Place, edited by Nina B. Huntemann and
Ben Aslinger. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 19–40 [22].
Young, Iris Marion. 2009. ‘Five
Faces of Oppression’, in Geographic Thought. A Praxis Perspective, edited by George Henderson and Marv Waterstone. New
York: Routledge, 37–63 [27].
146 pages.
24 pages.
88 pages.
*IR stands for International Relations and international relations. It also represents the ISO-3166 code of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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