Taped in Front of a Live Audience: On Liveness & Temporality in Media and Performance
CHUM 308
Spring 2014
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 308, AMST 305 |
In this class students will explore how the temporality of audience plays into the production and reception of a given work of art or literature. Television sitcoms, replete with laugh tracks and theatrical living room stock sets, provide us with one framework for imagining the mythical question of the audience. Using the television phrase, "taped in front of a live audience" this class will explore the generative confluence of liveness and mediation that such a TV example suggests. We will ask: how might this simultaneity of media and liveness allow us to imagine multiple audiences and intentions for a given work of art, literature, performance, or film? Moving from older media's relationship to the live and performance, we will also explore the question of the live studio audience in terms of new media technologies and platforms. How might we understand the "live audience" of new media wherein virtual or digital media is often figured as timeless and permanent? This class will trace question of liveness as they relate to audiences that are known, unknown, and inarticulated to explore the temporality of the audience in media and performance. Students will be introduced to a range of contemporary media and performance sites in which to ground our audience inquiries. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AMST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
J.L. Austin, HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS, Fred Moten, IN THE BREAK, José Muñoz, Cruising Utopia, Peggy Phelan, UNMARKED, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Thomas Keenan, NEW MEDIA, OLD MEDIA, Lucas Hilderbrand, INHERENT VICE
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Examinations and Assignments:
TBA |
| Instructor(s): Brewer Ball,Katherine Times: ..T.... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: CFH106; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 6 | FR: X |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 5 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 3 |
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