Blockveranstaltung: Food Media Today - Aufbaumodul (Blockseminar Dez 24 + Jan 25) - Details

General information

Course name	Blockveranstaltung: Food Media Today - Aufbaumodul (Blockseminar Dez 24 + Jan 25)
Course number	ANG.06568.01
Semester	WiSe 2024/25
Current number of participants	12
Home institute	Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft
Courses type	Blockveranstaltung in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date	Friday, 15.11.2024 14:00 - 16:00, Room: (online)
Type/Form	Blockseminar
Pre-requisites	Please make sure you are able to attend all online and in-person sessions before committing to this Blockseminar.
Learning organisation	Please make sure to attend the first online session in October if you are interested in the seminar.
Performance record	Studienleistung: -regular participation and contribution to class discussions -independent and group preparations for block sessions (primary and secondary texts) -one short critical food media reflection paper (2 pages max) -independent and group preparations for group poster presentation Modullesitung: -group poster presentation at the end of the semester (ca. 30 mins) This course can be credited in the study program of gender*bildet (Certificate Gender Studies).
ECTS points	5

Lehrende

• Jiann-Chyng Tu

Rooms and times

(online)

Friday, 18.10.2024 17:00 - 19:00
Friday, 15.11.2024 14:00 - 16:00

Seminarraum 4 (R.E.31) [EA 26-27]

Friday, 13.12.2024, Friday, 20.12.2024, Friday, 10.01.2025, Friday, 17.01.2025, Friday, 24.01.2025, Friday, 31.01.2025 14:00 - 18:00

Fields of study

• Philosophische Fakultät II - Philologien, Kommunikations- und Musikwissenschaften > Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Angloamerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
• Querschnittseinrichtungen > gender*bildet

Module assignments

• Interdisziplin. Studien (Schwerpunkt Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften) IKEAS120, Akkreditierungsfassung valid from WS 2021/22 > 1. Wahlbereich Angloamerikanische Studien > ANG.06568.01 - Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft V: Angloamerikanische Kulturräume in kulturübergreifenden Bezügen und Kontexten, valid from SS 2019 > LV 2: Seminar (Blockseminar)
• Interdisziplin. Studien (Schwerpunkt Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften) IKEAS-LEA180, Akkreditierungsfassung (WS 2018/19 - SS 2021) > Angloamerikanische Studien > ANG.06568.01 - Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft V: Angloamerikanische Kulturräume in kulturübergreifenden Bezügen und Kontexten, valid from SS 2019 > LV 2: Seminar (Blockseminar)
• Interdisziplin. Studien (Schwerpunkt Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften) IKEAS120, Akkreditierungsfassung (WS 2018/19 - SS 2021) > Studienrichtung: Angloamerikanische Studien > ANG.06568.01 - Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft V: Angloamerikanische Kulturräume in kulturübergreifenden Bezügen und Kontexten, valid from SS 2019 > LV 2: Seminar (Blockseminar)

Comment/Description

This seminar will focus on food as its central theme, examining its representation across a range of textual media (e.g., cookbooks and food magazines) and recording media, such as film and television, as well as user-generated content on social media (Web 2.0). We will critically explore the cultural, social, and political issues and discourses surrounding food, including topics like authenticity, identity (race, gender, class, and sexuality), national belonging, political participation, and sustainability. Beginning with groundbreaking examples from the twentieth century, we will move diachronically to analyze exemplary twenty-first-century case studies. These will include food magazines, cookbooks, food-centric films, documentaries, cooking shows, and social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. The seminar will start with two online sessions in October and November, followed by block sessions in December and January, and will conclude with a group poster presentation at the end of the semester.

Course material and case studies may include: The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook (1954), Bon Appétit (1956-today), The French Chef (1963-1973), Yan Can Cook (1982-today), Top Chef (2006-today), Julie & Julia (2009), Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005-2012), Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi (2020-), the rise and fall of the Bon Appétit test kitchen, Ballerina Farm, #tradwife, Mukbangs, #veganuary, Dry January, among others.

With the exception of selected films and TV shows, all other course material will be made available.

This course can be credited in the study program of gender*bildet (Certificate Gender Studies).