![]() ![]() image, the mythic origins of images, subversive, traumatic, monstrous, banned and destroyed images (idolatry and iconoclasm), the votive, the totem, and effigy, the mental image, the limits of visuality, the moving and projected image, the virtual image, dialectical images, image fetishism, the valence of the image, semiotics and the image, as well as criteria by which to assess their success or failure (their intelligibility) and their alleged redemptive and poetic power. Topics will include: the modern debate over word vs. This course will examine recent scholarship devoted to the image-a ubiquitous controversial, ambiguous and deeply problematic issue in contemporary critical discourse-and the ideological implications of the image in contemporary culture. The image remains a ubiquitous, controversial, ambiguous and deeply problematic issue in contemporary critical discourse. Work with the Comic Studies faculty advisor and academic advisor to construct a track.Select a track from the list of sample tracks and choose three courses from that track.Choose ANY three electives from EITHER the above list of Comic Studies courses OR the list of electives below.Students may choose to fulfill the nine (9) electives credits by completing any one of the following: The course will draw from an interdisciplinary range of methodologies, from art history and visual culture to literary studies and museum studies. Students will explore how cartooning, drawing, and printmaking in the 19th century led to the development of early comics and the newspaper comic strip, how early 20th-century comics fit into the modernist avant-garde, how postwar artists began to use the comics medium as both source material and as a medium unto itself, how comics have been incorporated into contemporary art museums and galleries, and how contemporary comics artists engage with abstraction, medium specificity, seriality, and the archive. This course will explore how the comics medium has figured into the history of modern and contemporary art and visual culture. Designated as writing intensive, this course emphasizes writing practices, recognizing the role writing plays in the formation of knowledge, and the framing of a specific academic specialization, as well as genre. We will focus on the ethical considerations and concerns conveyed in and by graphic memoirs in order to uncover unique forms of book-length sequential art, as well as enhance critical thinking about ethics and media literacy skills. Texts used in this course will be explored through this lens. Holding a mirror up to the multiple ways in which contemporary cultures frame and reframe individual and collective experience, graphic memoirs render their subjects’ and cultures’ ethical premises and guidelines explicit, and, therefore, enable readers to revisit, rethink, and redraw accepted ways of behaving, understanding, and circulating. Graphic memoirs are interested in how these distinctions, and the questions of individual and collective truth, transparency, and communicability they open onto, help to delineate ethical behavior and belief systems. ![]() Graphic memoirs, or auto-graphic novels, tell true tales of human experiences and global events, exploring the boundaries between fact and fiction, public and private, interior and exterior, visual and textual, seen and unseen, traumatic pasts and their futures. Graphic novels demonstrate a concern for constructed narrative within a visual structure, character development, and plot strategies. ![]()
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