Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) • Media Studies

Summary of all lectures + readings (only the essence for the readings): Week 1: Proximity - Distance, Schivelbusch_Panoramic_Travel, Balbi_Telecommunications Week 2: Still – Moving, Thompson+Bordwell_Film_History, Gunning_View_Aesthetic Week 3: Spectacle – Narrative, Gunning_Cinema_of_Attractions, Cook_Griffith Week 4: Recorded – Live, Spigel, Kompare_Rerun_Nation Week 5: Viewer – User, Bellamy+Walker_TV_and_RCD, Murray_Hamlet_on_the_Holodeck Week 6: Analog – Digital, McDonald...

These are the reading questions from the lecture material. All questions, in the lecture part on the exam, are based on these reading questions. Thus, prepare these carefully!

All lecture notes of Philosophy of the Humanities. The lecturer stated that nothing will be asked on the exam that is not mentioned in the lecture :). Thus, study the readings questions and lectures carefully. I hope this will help you !!! Goodluck

My complete lecture notes for the course, including slide information and detailed notes on how to relate the mandatory viewings to each week's concepts

Notes from the lecture, seminar and readings.

My complete seminar notes This year we read: Plato, Spinoza, Gadamer, Benjamin, Fanon, and Butler.

My complete notes on the lectures, including slide information The reading questions are in red and italics!

This summary comprises all the compulsory readings and study material for the final exam of the updated version of the textbook "History and philosophy of the humanities" (Chapters 1-12, with exception of chapters or points which are not compulsory.) The information of my summary is very sinthesized and explains in a simplistic way all the philosophical concepts, philosophical currents and author's ideas. The lectures explain nearly the same content of the book, so this summary will be per...

All materials, including Lecture notes, seminar notes, introduction video notes, summary of chapter 12 of the book History and Philosophy of the Humanities, and interpretative questions according to Judith Butlers Gender Troubles

In this document you will find all the information told in the lectures of Media & Culture. With clear highlights pointing to different themes within the document. It is especially meant for Media Studies scholars that want to check if they have noted everything told in the lectures or want to have a quick summary of all 6 lectures.