John Hopkins University - Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies
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Duration | 21 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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Credential | Certificate |
Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies at Coursera Course details
- This course is a short taster on the topic of the use of Images, Film, and their use in historical interpretation in the 20th century. It is primarily provided for those who have a general interest in history that draws on photojournalism as primary evidence, and films based on historical events.
- Once you have completed this course we hope you will be equipped to:
- Appreciate the significance of photographs as historical evidence in the twentieth century.
- Understand the limitations of the medium, and how we can attribute meaning to these individual records of 'one moment in time' while taking into account the circumstances in which any particular image was taken.
- Understand how individuals and institutions have looked to manipulate images to their own ends through alteration and/or censorship and what that meant to contemporary interpretation, as well as subsequent historical interpretation.
- Put individual images into a wider context, and in particular with reference to history written, or portrayed, beyond academia: public history.
- Do be aware that part of the contents of this course regard images and depiction of war. Real wars and real images.
Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction
Introduction
Use of Images
Manipulation
The Image in Politics
Advertising
Reportage (Reporting the News)
Optional Extra Material - other forms of images - Guernica
The Camera Never Lies - Course Information
Aims and Objectives
The Use of Images
Manipulation
The Image in Politics
Advertising
Reportage
Optional Extra Information - Guernica
Week 1 Quiz
Images and History in the Twentieth Century
Introduction part 1
Hitler
The Boer War
The Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam
The Blitz part 1
The Blitz part 2
Optional Extra Material - The London Riots 2011
Adolf Hitler
The Boer War
The US Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam
The Blitz
Optional Extra Reading - The London Riots 2011
Week 2 Quiz
The Air-Brushing of History: Stalin and Falsification
Introduction
The Soviet Union
Soviet Union under Stalin
The Image as Propaganda
Falsification
Conclusion
Optional Extra Material - Films with historical themes
Optional Extra Material: Film - The Damned United
Optional Extra Material: Film - In the Name of the Father
Optional Extra Material: Final Thoughts
Introduction
The Soviet and Stalin Lectures
Falsification
Optional Extra Material: Films with historical themes
Week 3 Quiz
Photojournalism, Authenticity and Matters of Public Acceptability: The Battle of Mogadishu
Introduction
Death of Margaret Thatcher
Black Hawk Down
The Day of the Ranger: Aftermath
Black Hawk Down and 9/11 Media Reportage
Black Hawk Down - The Website
The Image
Interview
UN and the USA in Somalia: Historical Context
The Somalian Civil War: Historical Context
Optional Extra Material - Interview with Niko: Real-Time Editorial Decision ? The Boston Marathon Bombing
Optional Extra Material - Image in the Context of Gender Studies
Introduction Information - Photojournalism, Authenticity and Matters of Public Acceptability: The Battle of Mogadishu
Death of Margaret Thatcher - Information
Black Hawk Down ? Information
The Day of the Ranger: Aftermath - Information
Media Reportage - Images and information
Black Hawk Down: The Website - Information
The Image - Information
Interview - Information
The UN and the USA in Somalia: Historical Context
The Somalian Civil War: Historical Context - Information
Optional Extra Reading: Interview with Niko: Real-Time Editorial Decision: The Boston Marathon Bombing - Information
Week 4 Quiz
The Power of the Image: Mount Suribachi, 1945
Introduction
Background to the Battle
Loss of Life
Importance of Iwo Jima
Did you pose that?
The Photos
The 'Gung-Ho' Shot
The 7th War Bond Drive
The Stamp and After
Ending the Pacific War
Interview - Reflections on Iwo Jima
Background to the Battle
Loss of Life - Information
Importance of Iwo Jima - Information
The Photos and 5.6 'Did you pose that?'
The 'Gung-Ho' shot; and Interpretation of the Main Image - Information Reading
The 7th War Bond Drive - Information
The Stamp and After - Information
Ending the Pacific War - Information
Week 5 Quiz
From Page to Screen: Film as Public History
Introduction
Approach to study
Flags of Our Fathers: The Book and Film as Public History
Letters from Iwo Jima
Academic critiques
An Honourable Suicide
Interview with Julio Etchart: America's Other 9/11
Final Thoughts (MOOC wrap up)
Week 6 reading part 1- Reading
Flags of Our Fathers: The Book and Film as Public History - Information
Week 6 Quiz
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