By the end of the course it is expected that students will be able to:
- comprehend and critically reflect on the complex interaction between ideology, urban space and city culture;
- demonstrate the ways in which gender, 'race', ethnicity, class and sexuality are constitutive of, and are constituted by, urban form and urban life and their representation through a range of concrete examples in different media;
- formulate a theoretically informed and methodologically sound research project that critically engages with the interaction between ideology and city culture.
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The city and its cultures are increasingly important categories in the fields of cultural studies. City culture, the practices of city life and urban forms, have given form and substance to identity over time and vice versa. This course investigates the (intertextual) significance of the imagination, exploration and inhabitation of the city and its urban spaces to modern and contemporary arts and culture. It is particularly attentive to the ways categories such as gender, sexuality, ‘race’, ethnicity, and class intersect with the construction, representation and use of urban spaces, inquiring how ideologies and city culture interact. The approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in and across the fields of cultural studies, gender studies and urban studies, and, intertextually, looking at relations between painting, film, literature and architecture.
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