UPDATE: COM 470 Advanced Media Theory Final Study Guide + Race and Gender Study Guide

After the wise and profound words of Father Guido, words which are so perfectly comforting during exam crunch times, here is the much agonized for study guide:

COM 470 Study Guide

CMS 360 Race & Gender Study Guide

Final Reading Quiz Readings Recap

The reading quiz on Wednesday will include basic questions based on the following articles (assigned since the midterm):

Bart Beaty - "Searching for Artists in the Entertainment Empire" from Comics Versus Art
Jeffrey A. Brown - "Ethnography: Wearing One's Fandom"
Brian Swafford - "Critical Ethnography: The Comics Shop As Cultural Clubhouse"
Charles Hatfield, "An Art of Tensions"
Bart Beaty, "Autobiography as Authenticity"
Ann Miller, Narrative Theory and Bande Dessinée from Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-Language Comic Strip (Intellect, 2008)


What I am primarily interested is your ability to synthesize the following points:

a) The relation of the comics medium and the comics form to the realm of culture, creativity and artistic production.
b) The role of fans in the legitimation of comics.
c) What Hatfield means when he defines comics as an 'art of tensions'.
d) Elements of Narratology.