ASIAN 3318 - [Literature and Media in Japan]

(crosslisted) COML 3150, VISST 3318
(GB) (CA-AS)

Fall. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 3 credits. Student option grading.

B. de Bary.

Beginning with the mid-nineteeth century, the course traces dynamic relays and reciprocal influences among woodblock prints, maps, fiction, films, anime, comics, and digital arts in Japan. We will consider the extensive cultural commentary that has surrounded the emergence of new media in an attempt to assess their transformative aesthetic, social, and political implications. The course will use materials with translations or subtitles in English. (LL)