ENGL 1040 Lecture Notes - Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Comics Code Authority, Fredric Wertham
12 Apr 2014
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Watchmen lecture 1 (comics and the comics code) Comics: a narrative told through pictures (often in combination with words) Such forms have been used throughout human history. Ways of getting information to people when literacy wasn"t well known. In the british museum (video of carved stone panels - date to 645 bc) The way this is layer out - tried to mimic the way they suspect it was layer out. Starts out at a royal household goes out throughout the hunt. Come back at the end of the hunt to the royal house again. Tell story of the young jesus from his pre- pubesant age to his coming of age. Telling story for a particular purpose (educational stories) Creation of adam by god is the garden of eden. Anatomically correct structure of the brain where god is. Religion is the invention of the human mind. William hogarth, the rake"s progress, plate 8 (1735)
