SemesterSpring Semester, 2020
DepartmentCollege of Communication Specialized Subjects for Freshman and Sophomore Majors
Course NameGlobal Image and International Communication
InstructorKANG TING-YU
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
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1.



2/21



Introduction



No readings



Part I: Theorizing images



2.



2/28



 



 



3.



3/6



A constructivist approach: images as stereotypes



Pickering, Michael. 2001. Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation. New York: Palgrave. (Chapter 1,2)



4.



3/13



A constructivist approach: images as stereotypes



 



Pickering, Michael. 2001. Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation. New York: Palgrave. (Chapter 3,4)



 



5.



3/20



Orientalism



 



 



Said, Edward W. 1978. Orientalism. New York: Penguin Paperbacks. (Chapter 1: I,II,III)



 



 



6.



3/27



Occidentalism



Buruma, Ian and Margalit, Avishai. 2004. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies. London: Penguin.



(Chapter 1,2,3)



Part II: Contextualizing images



7.



4/3



 



 



8.



4/10



Invited talk



 



9.



4/17



China in Western imagination/the West in Chinese imagination




  1. Pan, Chengxin (2004) ‘The "China Threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of Other as power politics’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 29(3): 305-331.



2. Ho, P. (2003) ‘Performing the “Oriental”: professionals and the Asian model minority myth’, Journal of Asian American Studies, 6(2), 149-175.



10.



4/24



Representing birth tourism: conflicting views




  1. Wang, Sean (2017) “Fetal Citizens? Birthright Citizenship, Reproductive Futurism, and the Panic over Chinese Birth Tourism in Southern California”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35 (2), 263-280.

  2. Harrington, John (2005) “Citizenship and the Biopolitics of Post-Nationalist Ireland”, Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 424-449.



11.



5/1



Inter-racial image construction: a gender perspective




  1. Knowles, Caroline and Alexander, Claire, eds. 2005. Making Race Matter: Bodies, Space and Identity. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter2, 8)

  2. Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (2003) “Media, class, and Western influence in Japanese women’s conceptions of attractiveness”, Feminist Media Studies 3(2): 153-172.

  3. Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (2004) “Sites of attractiveness: Japanese women and westernized representations of feminine beauty”, Critical Studies in Media Communication 21(4): 325-345.



 



Part III: Utilizing images



12.



5/8



Research proposal writing



 



13.



5/21



Branding cities, regions, and nations



Anholt, Simon. 2007. Competitive Identity: The New Brand Management for Nations, Cities and Regions. [Electronic resource] Houndmills, Basingtoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter 1,2,3,4)



14.



5/15



Case study: UNESCO Creative Cities




  1. Evans, G. (2009) “Creative cities, creative spaces and urban policy”, Urban Studies 46(5-6): 1003-1040.

  2. Bolognani, Marta (2012) “Good culture, bad culture……no culture! The implications of culture in urban regeneration in Bradford, UK”, Critical Social Policy 32(4): 618-635.



15.



5/22



Case study: sports, nations, and regions




  1. Cho, Younghan. "Unfolding sporting nationalism in South Korean media representations of the 1968, 1984 and 2000 Olympics." Media, culture & society 31.3 (2009): 347-364.

  2. Heinz Housel, Teresa. "Australian nationalism and globalization: Narratives of the nation in the 2000 Sydney Olympics’ opening ceremony." Critical Studies in Media Communication 24.5 (2007): 446-461.



16.



5/29



End of term presentation



 



17.



6/5



End of term presentation



 



18.



6/12



Write-up and submission



 



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Presentations 30%



Class participation 20%



Term paper 50%


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