Course overview
Popular Screen Cultures introduces students to an array of popular culture sites and texts, offering an enhanced understanding of how the pleasure of engaging popular culture intersects with questions of gender, sexuality, race & ethnicity, class, age, and other sources of making sense of culture and identity.
- Popular culture overview
- A focus on TV
- Fan studies
Course learning outcomes
- Identify relevant critical approaches and thematic readings of popular culture and screen media.
- Relate sociopolitical concepts such as gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, or class to understandings of popular culture.
- Structure a critically engaged argument in relation to popular culture.
- Identify and apply relevant theories to the study of popular culture and screen media.
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