FTVMS 327

Comics and Visual Narrative

Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for FTVMS 327.

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 considers issues around the legitimacy of a popular art form and means of storytelling, as well as the problem of censorship that dominated comics culture especially in the 1950s.

Availability 2016

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Professor Neal Curtis

Points

FTVMS 327: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points from FTVMS 201-214, 216-239, MĀORI 271

Restrictions

FTVMS 222