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MITx
See Tokyo in the tradition of the '100 views': 1870s, Kiyochika's gaslit scenes of the new capital, loss amidst modernization; and 1930s, Koizumi's syncopated scenes of the 'Imperial Capital.' From MIT Visualizing Cultures, with the Smithsonian Institution.
MITx
Remarkable political cartoons and photography at the turn of the 20th century reveal debates over US entry into global imperialism through the conquest and occupation of the Philippines. Historians tour this rich content drawn from MIT Visualizing Cultures.
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course analyzes mainstream, popular films produced in the post-World War II 20th century U.S. as cultural texts that shed light on ongoing historical struggles over gender identity and appropriate sexual behaviors. It traces the history of LGBTQ/queer film through the 20th and into the 21st ce…
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course focuses on main currents in contemporary German literary and visual culture. Taking Nietzsche’s thought as a point of departure, students will survey the dialectics of tradition and modernity in both Germany and other European countries, particularly the UK, France, Denmark, and Poland.…
MITx
See Tokyo’s modernization through the “100 views” tradition, from the gas-lit 1870s to the jazz era 1930s. Developed by MIT Visualizing Cultures, with images from the Smithsonian Institution.
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Humanities and Social Sciences course by Prof. Babitha Justin.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Este es el primer curso online para crear y obtener fotografías potentes para tus presentaciones de alto impacto con el programa Adobe Photoshop.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Los mapas están de moda. Forman parte de nuestra vida cotidiana. Los consultamos en el GPS y en Internet. Por eso es útil conocer su historia, su lenguaje secreto y su relación con el poder. Viajemos, pues, por el mundo de la cartografía para “ponernos en el mapa” del conocimiento.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Analicemos las metáforas y estereotipos de género que se reproducen comúnmente en las piezas gráficas que circulan en redes sociales y cómo reorientarlas a nuevas propuestas.
Alison
In a world where we communicate increasingly with images, visual culture is an ever-expanding field. It comprises not just of art, photography, and design, but also memes, advertising, histories of representation, and the very technologies through which all this flows. You will focus on visual perc…
