Class Notes for Visual Culture and Communication at University of Toronto Mississauga

VCC304 LECTURE 3: ADVERTISING AS IDEOLOGY, THEN AND NOW (01-21-19) Early Illustrated Advertising How did lithographic posters construct new identities for the consumers moving through public space at the dawn of modernity?...

VCC304 LECTURE 2: COLONIALISM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF RACE (01-14-19) Terms Cultural appropriation = inappropriate borrowing of material from another culture that is othered o e.g. white girl wearing indigenous costume at ...

VCC304 LECTURE 1: INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE AND POLITICS OF IDENTITY (01-07-19) Identity Identity as something externally imposed on individuals by society but also performative and subject to constant transformation ...

Nosferatu The theme of reproduction What makes Frankenstein monstrous? What kind of anxieties does it provoke? Plato's Allegory of the Cave Fire, a technology created by humans Landscape with t...

VCC101H5 Lecture 12: Images of Images: The Postmodern Spectacle Guy Debord (19311994): spectacle, Situationist International o Situationist International: revolutionary anticapitalist movement including artists working wit...

VCC101 Week 11: Political Subjects: Masses, Publics, Populations, Networks, Individuals? Connection to Last Lecture Meaning of image produced through complex interaction of producers, texts, viewers, social contexts Visual...

VCC101H5 Lecture 10: Reception: Who Sees What How? Review Examining how gaze enables process of identification o Identification interpellates us as subjects of institutions, sexism, racism, capitalism, etc. o Based on co...

VCC101H5 Lecture 9: Image Affects and Effects: Subjects andof the Gaze Last Lecture Connection Not just looking at how people use ideologies but how they are reflected in institutions and structures (church, school, hospit...

VCC101H5 Lecture 8: Visual Commonsense and Power: Ideology & Hegemony Review Elements of form How those elements create feelings and meanings How meanings in images relate to bigger structures of m...

Week 9 McCloud theories of Transition Like in movies, when car is moving and camera is low by tires to give more sense of speed o Ex. Michael Bay movies o Lower to ground feels faster Ak...

ERS120 January 7 , 2013 Introduction and the Scientific Method First Quiz: 1. Last Name, First Name ...

March 12, 2018 LECTURE 9 Remember: Download all Lecture and Tutorial Slides Recap: Last time we talked about Ideology and how it relate to institutions How structure of power replicate power of hegemony Institutions; a soc...

Week 6 Race and Class in the Early American Comic Strips Afternoon contemplation o Racist figures in comics Dennis the Menace stereotypical African American Speedy Gonzales racially reductive portrayals of Mexicans Mickey ...

Week 5 Masculine Spaces and Feminine Gaps Ex. the talking butt; Frank Millers hyper-sexual female in lingerie; monologue while panel is centered on her butt Julie Doucet Born and raised in Montreal ...

Week 8 Morning Contemplation Jimmy Corrigan Meant to represent internal thought processes of Jimmy o Several representations of his father and different reactions running simulations of possible outcomes Coloured backgroun...

Communication Success 2 Communication Success 3 permacharts TM ...