Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
6103MEDCUL-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To use a range of concepts to critically review the relationship between culture and individual and collective identities.
2. To critically evaluate theoretical concepts and assess their usefulness for interrogating relevant analytical case study media and cultural texts.
3. To provide the opportunity for students to undertake critical analysis and evaluation of an appropriate self-selected case study.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate theoretical approaches to the study of culture and identity.
2.
Identify a self-selected theoretical approach to the investigation of a substantive and self-identified analytical case study.
3.
Apply a self-selected theoretical approach to a substantive and self-identified analytical case study.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Indicative themes/approaches include:
identity as fixed or fragmented/fluid; societal power and identity; the reflexive self; performativity and identity; the production of classed identities; race, racism and identity; gender and identity.
Indicative case studies include:
Descartes and the Cartesian Subject; Foucauldian approaches to power, discourse and identity; post-feminist media culture; reality television; representation in print media and film; music as a resource of self-identity; sport and national identity.
Module Overview:
There are few more persistent or lively areas of debates in the modern world than those that cover questions of identity. At some point in our lives, identity matters to us all. Thinking through identity entails questions of politics, of feeling, of emotion, of social relationships and cultural representation. Identity is rarely about just one thing, because none of us are just one thing just gendered, just classed, just raced, etc. Culture is a key site for the making and contesting of identities. Culture and Identity is about how we try to negotiate our place in the world at different points and in different contexts. We will explore approaches to identity through a series of case studies, such as: television representation of classed identities, self-reflexivity in reality television, psychoanalysis and filmic representation, music as a resource of self-identity, and media sport and national identity.
There are few more persistent or lively areas of debates in the modern world than those that cover questions of identity. At some point in our lives, identity matters to us all. Thinking through identity entails questions of politics, of feeling, of emotion, of social relationships and cultural representation. Identity is rarely about just one thing, because none of us are just one thing just gendered, just classed, just raced, etc. Culture is a key site for the making and contesting of identities. Culture and Identity is about how we try to negotiate our place in the world at different points and in different contexts. We will explore approaches to identity through a series of case studies, such as: television representation of classed identities, self-reflexivity in reality television, psychoanalysis and filmic representation, music as a resource of self-identity, and media sport and national identity.
Additional Information:This module provides students with an opportunity to explore the complex and multiple ways identities are (re)produced in contemporary culture. Culture is a key site for the making and contesting of identities. Culture and Identity deals with how we try to negotiate our place in the world at different points and in different contexts. So this module will engage with a range of theories, debates and case study materials to help us explore critically some deceptively simple questions.