IN 135 - Ways of Seeing

Institution:

Emerson College

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Description:

What does it mean to see? How is meaning made in visual culture? How do paintings, photographs, films, advertising, and new media reflect and shape how we define ourselves and interact with others? Visual experience, representation from perspectives of philosophy, contemporary cultural studies, interaction between media and global cultures, aesthetics and politics of "seeing" incontemporary society. Combine creative, critical approaches to study of visual culture. Classical and modern ways of seeing, language of film and television, advertising, hyper-reality, spectatorship and the gaze, surveillance, and culture of technology.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.emerson.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 824-8500

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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