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Readings + Assignments

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 + 4

Kovarik 287-289

Kovarik 217-240

Kovarik 309-321

Kovarik 324-329

Mulvey - Visual Pleasure

Lynn Spigel - Television in the Family Circle

Williams - Flow


Week 5
Kovarik 333-341

Media Hot and Cold - Marshall McLuhan

Unruly Media; YouTube + Music Video Aesthetics - Vernallis (skim)


Week 6
Digital Humanities - Lunenfeld, et. al (excerpts)

Kovarik 349-374

Jurgenson - IRL Fetish

Jurgenson - The Facebook Eye

Unimodernism  - Lunenfeld

Generations - Lunenfeld


Slides

Lecture 1 | Lecture 2 | Lecture 3 | Lecture 4 

Lecture 5  | Lecture 6 | Lecture 7 | Lecture 8

Lecture 9 | Lecture 10 
Modernisms


Assignments


Photo Analysis Datablitz  |  Rubric

Midterm | Rubric

Final | Rubric


How to Write A Review | How to Make Great Presentations with Pecha Kucha


Syllabus


DESMA 8: Media Histories SU17




Xtras


Media Histories YouTube Playlist

RadioLab: Watching You, Watching Me - The History of Candid Camera (thx to Haejin Suh!)


VR Exhibition @ Butcher Bird Studios (on Sept 10)

Events: Pantsula @ The Fowler  (through Sept 3)

Events: Alex Brown “Obscura” Closing (on Aug 31)

Bitmojis: The Avatars of Communications

Outsourcing Emotional Labor with Reaction Gifs: Teen Vogue

 
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