Detail of a disc depicting a couple waltzing, created by Eadweard Muybridge for the phenakistoscope, an early motion picture machine that produced the illusion of movement through the rapid progression of a series of images. (Image via wikimedia commons.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. James Buzard
Elyse Graham
MIT Course Number
21L.430 / CMS.920
As Taught In
Spring 2013
Level
Undergraduate / Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
Serial Storytelling examines the ways the passing and unfolding of time structures narratives in a range of media. From Rembrandt's lifetime of self-portraits to The Wire, Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers to contemporary journalism and reportage, we will focus on the relationships between popular culture and art, the problems of evaluation and audience, and the ways these works function within their social context.
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