Audiovisual Resources

 

This section of the TAS website compiles audiovisual material helping you to extend your background knowledge.

There are full university lectures (from universities such as Yale and Berkeley) on literature, theory and history, guest lectures by key literary critics talking about their key concepts as well as interviews and discussions.

Most of the material is taken from the websites collected under "Links." On these sites, you can find a wealth of further material!



TAS Lectures and Readings


Makarand Paranjape


Farrukh Dhondy reading two stories (Nov. 5, 2009 Theater im Viertel, Saarbrücken)


Vijay Mishra

 



Key Critics


Kwame Anthony Appiah

 


Homi K Bhabha



Pierre Bourdieu


Dipesh Chakrabarty


Jacques Derrida

  • Kirby Dick, Amy Kofman. Derrida. Jane Doe Movies, 2002.


Franz Fanon


Sigmund Freud

  • Elisabeth Kapnist dir. "Sigmud Freud. Die Erfindung der Psychoanalyse." Part 1. Die Anfänge Part 2. Der Durchbruch. France 3/ BFC Productions, 1997.


Eric Hobsbawm



Antonio Gramsci

 


Stephen Greenblatt



Stuart Hall



Karl Marx



Trinh T. minh-ha

  • Reassemblage. From the Firelight to the Screen (1983) on youtube: 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4




Ashis Nandy/Arjun Appadurai


Gananath Obeyesekere


Mary Louise Pratt



Edward Said

  • On Orientalism   2/4    3/4    4/4: Interview/Feature with Edward Said explaining his concept of Orientalism

 


Gayatri C Spivak



Ngugi wa Thiong'o



Slavoj Zizek



  • "We're Only Human: Ideology in Hollywood Today" (Jan 2009)





Literary and Cultural Studies


"Literary Theory"

  • (25 Lectures) Paul H. Fry (Yale)

 

Paul Bloom. "A Person in the World of People: Self and Other" Part I, Part II. Part of. Introduction to Psychology. Open Yale Courses, 2010.


Science, Magic and Religion

  • (19 Lectures) Courtenay Raia (UCLA)



100 Incredible Anthropology Lectures Online

  • posted in the Best Colleges Online Blog



"Cinema Diaspora: A Panel Discussion with Mira Nair"

  • (Sept. 17 2007)  Mira Nair and UC Faculty



Racism: A History. A series by BBC, 2007.

  • Episode 1 'The Colour of Money: Colonialism and the Slave Trade'
  • Episode 2  'Fatal Impacts: Eugenics, Social Darwinism, and Genocide'
  • Episode 3  'A Savage Legacy: Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Racism Today'

 

Patrick Brantlinger "Cannibals and Missionaries" Ian Fletcher Lecture. Arizona State University. Nov. 2002.


Dante's Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise

  • (23 Lectures) Guiseppe Mazzato (Yale)




Links


Internet Archive: Cultural and Academic Films Collection

  • This library of academic and cultural films features several sub-collections of documentaries, educational movies, anthropological and artistic films.


Nobel Prize Lectures 

    • Nobel  Laureates have "to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded." 


    iTunes University

    • Educational content on iTunes. Audiovisual material from more than 600 museums and unversities.


    Academicearth.Org

    • Complete lecture series from leading American universities such as Yale, Stanford, Berkeley etc.


    Open Yale Courses

    • Introductory courses from all fields, often with additional course material and lecture transcripts.


    University of California Television (UCTV)

    • Mostly guest lectures by distinguished scholars (e.g. Bhabha, Spivak) and writers (e.g. Soyinka, Fugard).


    Webcast: University of Berkeley 


    ForaTV

    • Lectures and discussions on economy, politics, culture, science and the environment. 



    Library of Congress Webcasts

    • Collection of webcasts of events organized by the Library of Congress: many readings by authors and lectures on literature, history, biography etc.


    Web Media from Princeton University

    • Lectures held at Princeton University, some from distinguished lecture series.

     

    The British Academy

    • Podcasts available on the website (with short abstracts).


    MIT Comparative Media Studies: CMS News (Podcasts)

    • Subjects relate to the various media we create and consume each day: film, TV, comics, videogames, the internet, and the vast body of emerging media that's being created as you read this. (website)


    15 Best Websites for Documentaries

    • Links to websites where you can watch documentary movies for free









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    Restricted Access

    Some resources listed here, especially those in the reference and research section, can only be accessed from within the university network.


    In order to gain access from outside, students need to install the vpn-client.

    Other users can apply for access at the Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek.