FAMS 221 Media Theory
With the advent of photography, film, and digital media, visuality became a ubiquitous and highly contested form of perception. What lends images their power and appeal? How do visual media elicit desire, inscribing differences of race, gender, religion, and class? What production practices and critical discourses respond to today's politicized images and cultures of performativity, representation, and spectacle? This course introduces students to the key concepts and theories of the multifaceted fields of media theory and visual culture. [W]
Instructor
Groo, Smith, Sikand, Johannssen