2009 Fall VISUALST 100D-01D
Bulletin Course Description Survey of visual culture, from issues of production, circulation and reception to how visual media have historically exerted power, elicited desire, and constructed social experience. Topics include: how photography, television, film, video, Internet, advertising, comics, and other imagery code vision and inscribe race, gender, sexuality and class differences, and dominate nature and animals; how the gaze links cultural performativity, from the coliseum to shopping malls and museums to sports events; and how the rhetoric and semiotics of representation provide access to ways in which visual meaning is socially, politically, and culturally produced and obtained.(Team-taught.) Not open to students who previously took this course as Art Histor
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Title INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE Department VISUALST Course Number 2009 Fall 100D Section Number 01D Primary Instructor Stiles,Kristine Prerequisites
Synopsis of course content
Surveys a wide variety of visual representations and the rhetoric of images across historical time. This course includes visual analysis of everyday life and popular culture, photography, television, film, video, and the Internet: satellite, science, and medical imagery; advertising, industrial design, games and comics; how vision is socially coded to inscribe race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and difference, dominate nature and animals, and organize the visual field--including surveillance--from shopping malls, museums and sports events to both public and private spaces. This course also considers theories of the gaze, the spectacle, and scopic regimes. Faculty from Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Computer Science, Nasher Art Museum, ISIS, Romance Studies, and other departments will guest lecture in this course.
