ENGL 381 - Hopeful Monsters: (Mixed-)Media Studies

This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Cinema Studies
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
This course looks at hybrid media forms across historical, national and aesthetic boundaries. What happens when generally distinct aesthetic forms and practices are merged? What do they reveal about the nature of the original media they are constructed from? How is interpretive activity challenged by such works? Our objects of study will include visual art, experimental poetry, innovative memoir, essay-films, narrative and documentary cinema, graphic and experimental fiction and more. American, Post-1900. 

 
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Pence
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.