[dance-tech] Fw: New MA Program: Performance, Screen & Visual Cultures

Hi to everyone!
It is great to see progress in the integration of performance, dance and 
corporeality studies in new interdisciplinary programs. We lack truly inter and 
transdisciplinary studies including visual and performing and media arts 
without the traditional hierarchy.

Beijos,
Isabel Valverde


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Please disseminate widely and tell all potential MA students about this 
brilliant new interdisciplinary MA. I will be teaching the core course in Fall 
2008. Best, Amelia





MA in Performance, Screen & Visual Cultures

Course description

This pioneering MA reflects the increasing multidisciplinarity of creative 
practices across performance, screen-based, and visual arts practices.   It is 
taught collaboratively across the Faculty of Humanities, involving a range of 
subject areas, notably Art History & Visual Studies, Drama, English, American 
Studies (School of Arts, Histories and Cultures); and German, Spanish, French 
and Russian (School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures).   The core course 
will provide a theoretical, methodological, and historiographic introduction to 
the study of performing, screen-based, and visual arts practices (with readings 
drawn from philosophy, drama, theatre studies, performance studies, dance, film 
history and theory, television and media studies, art history, and visual 
culture studies), as well as addressing the interconnected development of these 
disciplines and the arts they seek to study since the early modern period.   
The course will also encourage
 students to think critically about social, political, intellectual and 
historical contexts.   Through the dissertation the student will work under the 
close supervision of an appropriate specialist and will have the opportunity to 
explore a chosen topic in depth.



Module Details and Staff

Academic Staff currently involved in teaching the MA include: Dr. Rajinder 
Dudrah, Drama; Professor Vivian   Gardner, Drama;   Dr. Cathy Gelbin, German 
Studies;   Professor Amelia Jones, Art History & Visual Studies; Professor 
Carol Mavor, Art History & Visual Studies; Professor Dee Reynolds, French; 
Professor Janet Wolff, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts.   

Typical optional course units include (subject to staff availability): 

The Surrealist Image; Psychoanalysis and the Image; Identity and Visual 
Representation; The Body in/and Representation, c1900 to the Present; Art and 
Ethnography, c.1900-1950; National Culture and the Idea of Public Art; Cultural 
Theory; Museums and Material Culture; Film Music; Bollywood Cinema Black on 
Screen; Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary French Cinema; Spanish Cinema 
since 1980; Dance, Performance and the Body; Representing the Holocaust; 
Post-War German Cinema; Soviet Cinema and Society; Holocaust Representations in 
Visual Culture; Television and Mass Media in post-Soviet Russia. See related 
subject area websites for more specific information on these options.



Scholarships and bursaries

UK and EU applicants may enter the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
or Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) competitions (internal deadline 
in early March each year). These grants are highly competitive, and applicants 
should discuss applying with the Programme Director as soon as possible. Some 
awards are usually offered by the School or from specific Subject Areas linked 
to Performance, Screen   and Visual Cultures; see here for current information, 
or contact the Admissions Administrator: Andrew.rigg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Some 
awards are reserved for international applicants, who are also encouraged to 
apply for funds from their originating nations as well as for funds within the 
University and will be fully supported in their application processes. 



For more information see also: 
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taughtdegrees/courses/atoz/course/?code=07340



Amelia Jones

Pilkington Chair and Professor

Art History & Visual Studies

School of Arts, Histories and Cultures

Mansfield Cooper Building, Room 3.10

University of Manchester

Oxford Road

Manchester M13 9PL

p: 0161-275-3436

f: 0161-275-3331

m: 07875-911-880

alternate email: amelia.g.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



h: 13 Chandos Road South

Chorlton, Manchester M21 0TH

p, h: 0161-283-7622   
   





      
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Please disseminate widely and tell all potential MA students about this 
brilliant new interdisciplinary MA. I will be teaching the core course in Fall 
2008. Best, Amelia


MA in Performance, Screen & Visual Cultures
Course description
This pioneering MA reflects the increasing multidisciplinarity of creative 
practices across performance, screen-based, and visual arts practices.   It is 
taught collaboratively across the Faculty of Humanities, involving a range of 
subject areas, notably Art History & Visual Studies, Drama, English, American 
Studies (School of Arts, Histories and Cultures); and German, Spanish, French 
and Russian (School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures).   The core course 
will provide a theoretical, methodological, and historiographic introduction 
to the study of performing, screen-based, and visual arts practices (with 
readings drawn from philosophy, drama, theatre studies, performance studies, 
dance, 
film history and theory, television and media studies, art history, and 
visual culture studies), as well as addressing the interconnected development 
of 
these disciplines and the arts they seek to study since the early modern 
period. 
  The course will also encourage students to think critically about social, 
political, intellectual and historical contexts.   Through the dissertation the 
student will work under the close supervision of an appropriate specialist 
and will have the opportunity to explore a chosen topic in depth.

Module Details and Staff
Academic Staff currently involved in teaching the MA include: Dr. Rajinder 
Dudrah, Drama; Professor Vivian   Gardner, Drama;   Dr. Cathy Gelbin, German 
Studies;   Professor Amelia Jones, Art History & Visual Studies; Professor 
Carol 
Mavor, Art History & Visual Studies; Professor Dee Reynolds, French; Professor 
Janet Wolff, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts.   
Typical optional course units include (subject to staff availability): 
The Surrealist Image; Psychoanalysis and the Image; Identity and Visual 
Representation; The Body in/and Representation, c1900 to the Present; Art and 
Ethnography, c.1900-1950; National Culture and the Idea of Public Art; Cultural 
Theory; Museums and Material Culture; Film Music; Bollywood Cinema Black on 
Screen; Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary French Cinema; Spanish Cinema 
since 
1980; Dance, Performance and the Body; Representing the Holocaust; Post-War 
German Cinema; Soviet Cinema and Society; Holocaust Representations in Visual 
Culture; Television and Mass Media in post-Soviet Russia. See related subject 
area 
websites for more specific information on these options.

Scholarships and bursaries
UK and EU applicants may enter the Arts and Humanities Research Council 
(AHRC) or Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) competitions (internal 
deadline in early March each year). These grants are highly competitive, and 
applicants should discuss applying with the Programme Director as soon as 
possible. 
Some awards are usually offered by the School or from specific Subject Areas 
linked to Performance, Screen   and Visual Cultures; see here for current 
information, or contact the Admissions Administrator: 
Andrew.rigg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Some awards are reserved for international applicants, who are also encouraged 
to apply for funds from their originating nations as well as for funds within 
the University and will be fully supported in their application processes. 

For more information see also: 
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taughtdegrees/courses/atoz/course/?code=07340

Amelia Jones
Pilkington Chair and Professor
Art History & Visual Studies
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Mansfield Cooper Building, Room 3.10
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
p: 0161-275-3436
f: 0161-275-3331
m: 07875-911-880
alternate email: amelia.g.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

h: 13 Chandos Road South
Chorlton, Manchester M21 0TH
p, h: 0161-283-7622

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