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VLACSM176: Visual Communications & Social Advocacy
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03/25/10 - 06/02/10 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Thursdays
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Paul Von Blum
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Location: | Conference Room, Floor 11, Room 1104
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None Defined
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For many centuries, social commentators have employed various means of visual communication in order to reach diverse audiences in communicating diverse social and political topics. Such forms as cartoons and comics, posters, and documentary photography have reached millions of people throughout the world, especially in the 19th, 20th, and the early 21st centuries, often generating major public controversy. Published frequently in major newspapers and magazines and posted in populous neighborhoods and commercial districts, these visual efforts have contributed powerfully to the mass media’s dissemination of controversial public policy issues. These works have represented virtually every political ideology of the past 200 years. In the 20th and 21st centuries, public murals have added to the tradition of visual social communication. Mural art has augmented this record of visual commentary, especially in Mexico and the United States. Frequently painted in ethnically dense areas, public murals have constituted a major and effective method for communicating themes about historical and contemporary social topics. This course will survey all four genres of visual communication, with approximately 2 weeks devoted to each during the quarter (approximately 3 weeks for murals). Students will be introduced to several examples of each visual form. They will also read selected examples of critical scholarly literature addressing these widely disseminated forms of public visual communication. They will be encouraged to examine these visual commentaries as significant features of modern mass media. They will also gauge the strengths and limitations of these media in relation to other forms of media expression. |
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