Welcome to LCC 3314--Technologies of Representation, Summer 2008!

Instructor: Andrea Wood (andrea.wood@lcc.gatech.edu)

Section: P

Meeting Times: MWF 1:20-2:30

Location: Skiles 317

Course Focus--Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Visual Media: Contemporary Transnational Comics and Animation

Description:

This course will examine the ways in which contemporary transnational comics and animation explore ideas about gender, race, and sexuality through their respective visual media.  In particular, we will consider how cultural differences on a global scale affect and shape artistic representation and narrative discourse about gender, race, and sexuality in sequential/graphic art and animation.  At the same time, we will examine how and why comics and animation are becoming a critical part of academic study as both art and as a pertinent area of popular culture and media fandom studies. In addition to the primary texts, students will read several scholarly pieces that will introduce them to important theoretical discussions about visual media as well as key concepts in feminist and queer theory that interrogate the political, personal, and cultural meanings of gender, race, and sexuality from the past to the present. 

Tentative Reading List:

Texts (Will be available at Engineer's Bookstore)

•    Aaron, Jason and R.M. Guerra.  Scalped Vol.1: Indian Country.

•    Abel, Jessica.  La Perdida.

•    Johnson, Mat and Warren Pleece.  Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery.

•    Kannagi, Satoru and Hotaru Odagiri.  Only the Ring Finger Knows.

•    Kiely, Molly.  Diary of a Dominatrix.

•    McCloud, Scott.  Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art.

•    Satrapi, Marjane.  The Complete Persepolis.

•    Schrag, Ariel.  Potential.

•    Spiegelman, Art.  Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.

•    Vaughan, Brian K. and Pia Guerra.  Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned

•    Vaughan, Briak K., Adrian Alphona, and Takeshi Miyazawa.  Runaways Vol. 1.

•    Winick, Judd.  Pedro and Me.

Animation (Students will be required to watch most films on their own time and will need to prepare in advance to rent or borrow them.  Some films will be screened in class--view the schedule when available)

•    Akira

•    Finding Nemo

•    Grave of the Fireflies

•    Paprika

•    Princess Mononoke

 LCC3314summersyllabus.doc 

 LCC3314schedule.doc *06/02/08

Assignments

Resources 

Peer Review 1