2009 Fall VISUALST 183-01
Bulletin Course Description Critical history of the "televisual" in the American visual culture mediascape, broadcast television, cable television, and contemporary convergences with new media technologies, emphasizing social conceptions of television, and their influence on how the medium has emerged as a cultural, technological, and visual apparatus; consideration of the economic and social forces unfolding in the context of the televisual, examining the social forces shaping the development of television from its inception in the 1940s to the present-day. Instructor: Staff
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Title CULTURAL HISTORY OF TV Department VISUALST Course Number 2009 Fall 183 Section Number 01 Primary Instructor Olson,Mark J Prerequisites
Synopsis of course content
This course is a critical history of television and its related cultural aspiration, which we might call a desire for the "televisual," from its emergence as a new media technology in the early 1900s to its recent convergence with contemporary technologies such as the iPod and internet. Our emphasis will be on socio-spatial- technical conceptions of television, and their influence on how the medium has emerged as a cultural, technological and visual apparatus.
