Description: Lecture, three hours; media viewings, three hours. Study engages media originating on different platforms and deriving from different modes of production, cultural locations, and various critical approaches. Each approach considers various components of what can be read in individual work including form and aesthetics, organization (narrative/nonnarrative, fiction/nonfiction), orientation to spectator or user, industrial or artisanal production context, and relation to historical or cultural moment. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0