[Bioundgrd] Fwd: UNDERSTANDING COMICS COURSE

[Janice Chang]

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>Hi all, this is a really popular graduate/undergraduate cms course 
>that hasnt been taught for awhile.
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>please forward to your students, if applicable.
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>thx
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>chrisP
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>SPRING 2005 SUBJECT
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>21L.715 (U)/CMS.871 (G)
>Media in Cultural Context
>Henry Jenkins
>Topic: Understanding Comics
>Mon, Wed 11-12:30
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>"Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words
>and pictures." -- Harvey Pekar
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>This is a course about words, pictures, and stories. We hope over 
>the term to map as broad a range of different things you can do with 
>words and pictures as possible.  We will be examining some of the 
>groundbreaking work which helped define comics as a medium in the 
>early part of the 20th century as well as cutting edge work in 
>classical and contemporary comic books (both independent and 
>mainstream). We will be talking about superheroes and funny animals, 
>since they have been at the heart of the American comics tradition, 
>but we will be ready a broad range of work which has nothing to do 
>with either genre. The span goes from theearly comic strips of 
>Outcault, Herrman, and McCay, through to contemporary works by Alan 
>Moore, Daniel Clowes, Marjane Starapi, and Brian Michael Bendis. The 
>focus is primarily American but we will spend time looking at comics 
>from other parts of the world as well. A word of warning: comics are 
>expensive and we are going to be reading lots and lots of them, so 
>the course readings are going to be astronomically expensive 
>compared with any other CMS subject you have taken before. I will be 
>working with the class to make this material as accessible as 
>possible, but be ready to explain to your parents why you just spent 
>several hundred dollars on funnybooks.
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>Chris Pomiecko
>Program Administrator
>Comparative Media Studies
>617-253-3599 / fx 617-258-5133