Week 14: Teaching Comics and Multimodal Literature

In class

• Jessie Gada's teaching demo (complete in order):
  • Explore Album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys from My Chemical Romance
  • Watch Music Videos
    • Na Na Na
    • SING
  • The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California from Dark Horse (in shared folder)
• Discussion of Theoretical Readings:
  • Multimodality (handout) - (multimodal memes, example)
  • Understanding Comics
    • Definition of comics (pgs. 7-9)
    • Icon and iconicity (26-31, 49-52) - (TMCM handout)
    • Panels, Gutters, Transitions (66, 69-74) - (The True Lives)

Assignments (Electronic Literature and Video Games)

• For Sydney Fritts' teaching demo:
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • https://www.zelda.com/about/ - scroll to read a little about the franchise, and click through the timeline at the bottom! (It’s short I promise)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAu_TEeVegU&list=PL-7t9DoIELCSM4AxgfM2xtTbUO8rCYb0w&index=6
• Electronic Literature:
  • Watch "Third Generation Electronic Literature" (1.5 hours)
  • Read:
    • "Redshift and Portalmetal" by Micha Cárdenas
    • "While Chopping Red Peppers" by Megan Sapnar
    • "Enigma n" and "Enigma n2022" by Jim Andrews
    • "The Two" by Nick Montfort
    • Explore this collection of Twitter bots