This unit deconstructs the visual language/s of popular culture by exploring the notion that film, television, magazines, fashion, advertising, comics, computer graphics and the internet are amongst the most powerful and persuasive communicators of ideas, attitudes, beliefs and stereotypes in our contemporary world. Using the techniques of semiotics and contemporary theory students learn to interpret and deconstruct the meaning of the various mediums of popular culture. -- Course Website
Instructor: Ms Anna Daly
Prerequisites: Must have passed 12 credit points at second year level in Theory of Art and Design, Visual Culture or Cultural Studies
