SUBJECT MODULE P2 | 12 ECTS · 120 LECTURE HOURS · 180 PRACTICE HOURS
Thinking and image in cinema and TV:
Mediatic determination and critical perspectives
Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Prof. Dr. Simón Royo (UNED)

01. Image as seduction and delusion or as transmission of truth. Myhos  and Logos: ideological manipulation and truth as an event. A critique to television: the problem of the constitution of subjectivity.
02. Three different ways of looking: ascending, descending and reciprocal look. From the beauty and the sublime to the apollonian and the dionysian: the tragic thinking.
03. The constitution of psycological in the era of world image.
04. Aesthetic image and image as commodity. The blurring of the real by the action of machine.
05. Cinema as a total work of art or as an image of social reality. Critical postmodernity and critique of culture.
06. New forms of censorship: the field of the visible and the invisible. The obscene and the secret. Public image, private image and overdetermination of sexual imagery.
07. Determination of imageries by mass media and imagination as an anomaly. Posibilidades de la imagen crítica como pensamiento en un mundo globalizado.
08. Iconographic variations: the use of image of historic and mythical figures. Messianism, leadership and caudillismo. From theories of genius to the defence of singularity. The worship to the actor. Hierarchisation of look and herd’s imagery. The power of political and mediatic lies.
09. For a critique of sentimental education. Analitics of senses and dialectics of reality’s image. Image as tradition and synesthesia of thinking or as an imposition shaming a blind look.
10. Summary and conclusions.