Subject：Moving Image and Spectator-ship

Subject：Moving Image and Spectator-ship Length: 3,000 words! ESSAY QUESTIONS!   For your 3000-word essay you are asked to write about contemporary screen spectatorship by making a case study of a particular media screen and viewing situation. You will write a critical account of your chosen media screen, site and spectatorship that demonstrates a concrete application of concepts and theories of spectatorship encountered on the module. Examples might include: a screen-based installation at an art gallery a specific screening event in a cinema or alternative space for moving image! presentation screens located in specific public spaces personal screens and devices used to experience specific forms of moving image! media!   ＊Your case study should include the following theories and references discussed in the module:! – Paradoxes of the Spectator and the Screen : Ranciere, Jacques. “The Emancipated Spectator.” In The Emancipated Spectator. London: Verso, 2011. pp 1-23. - The Gaze and the Glance:Barthes, Roland. “Leaving the Movie Theatre.” In The Rustle of Language, translated by Howard, Richard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.!   - Screens and the Attention Economy:Beller, Jonathan. “Paying Attention.” Cabinet, no. 24 (Winter 2006).   - Tactile Encounters with the Moving Image :Marks, Laura U. “Video Haptics and Erotics.” In Touch:Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. - Ethics, Suffering and Spectatorship:Downing, Lisa, and Libby Saxton. “Ethics, Spectatorship and the Spectacle of Suffering.” In Film and Ethics. New York: Routledge, 2009   - Moving Images and the (Im)mobility of Viewers:Mondloch, Kate. “Installing Time”. In Screens:Viewing Media Installation Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.!   - Screens and Publics – Part 1: Public Sphere and Experience :Hansen, Miriam. “Foreword.” In Oskar Negt, Alexander Kluge, Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1993.   - Screens and Publics – Part 2: The Transformation of Public Space :McCarthy, Anna. “Shaping Public and Private Space.” In Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.   - Spectators and Spectres:Mulvey, Laura. “The Index and the Uncanny: Life and Death and the Photograph.” In Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image. London: Reaktion Books,2006.   ＊You are strongly encouraged where relevant to visit your chosen sites, observe people’s actions and interactions within a specific setting, participate yourself, document what you see