Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Stories with Pictures: Narrative in Visual Media
Course Number:
ENG00087H
Course Description:
We tend to think of stories being told with words, as in novels, or biographies, or journalism; but images too can be a sophisticated vehicle of storytelling. This module is an opportunity to examine a range of visual narrative forms, including illustration and narrative painting, graphic narrative (or comics), narrative film, and narratives in interactive media. Drawing upon a broad selection of examples, we shall explore the ways of telling stories with pictures, whether in interaction with words or on their own. We’ll consider still and moving images, and immersive simulated environments, all of which contrast with words in that they mean by virtue of some kind of resemblance to what they represent – they are iconic signs. But stories in visual form, nonetheless, are not self-evident; they have their own repertoire of formal and rhetorical devices, and we shall explore the often elaborate ways these resources have been exploited.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
COMM 366
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00087H/latest
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