MEDIA 222

Comics and Visual Narrative

Please note: this is archived course information from 2022 for MEDIA 222.

Description

Explores the medium of comics both as an expression of popular culture and as a visual language. Beginning with a history of sequential graphic narrative, the course considers issues around the legitimacy of a popular art form and means of story-telling, as well as the problem of censorship that dominated comics culture especially in the 1950s.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline for MEDIA 222.

Digital Course Outlines are refreshed in November for the following year. Digital Course Outlines for courses to be offered for the first time may be published slightly later.

Availability 2022

Not taught in 2022

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

MEDIA 222: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points in Media, Film and Television or Communication or Transnational Culture and Creative Practice, or ARTHIST 115

Restrictions

FTVMS 222, FTVMS 327, MEDIA 327