_Readings

Week 1
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida
John Berger - Understanding A Photograph
Kittler - Optical Media (Suggested)

Kovarik 27-36
Kovarik 139-161

Week 2

Sergei Eisenstein - A Dialectical Approach To Film Form

Kovarik 181-191

Kovarik 191-205

Week 3

Kovarik 287-289

Kovarik 217-240

Kovarik 309-321

Kovarik 324-329

Mulvey - Visual Pleasure

_Slides

Lecture 1 | Lecture 2 | Lecture 3 | Lecture 4

_Assignments

Photo Analysis Datablitz  |  Rubric

Midterm

_Syllabus

DESMA 8: Media Histories SU17

_Xtras

Media Histories YouTube Playlist