LLS 435

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Commodifying Difference

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

An interdisciplinary examination of how racial, ethnic and gender difference is negotiated through media and popular culture, and how racial, ethnic and gendered communities use cultural forms to express identity and difference. Among the theoretical questions explored are the politics of representation, ethnic/racial authenticity, cultural commodification and transnational popular culture. Some of the cultural forms examined are cultural festivals/parades, ethnic/race-based beauty pageants, cinematic and televisual texts and musical forms, such as Hip-Hop and Salsa.

Same as AAS 435, AFRO 435, GWS 435, and MACS 432. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Any combination of 6 hours from Latina/o Studies, Asian American Studies, Afro-American Studies, Gender and Women Studies or Media and Cinema Studies; graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

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LLS 435 class schedule data for fall 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	60146	Lecture-Discussion	U	4:00PM -6:20PM	M	Foreign Languages Building	Ruiz, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: "The Body as Text in Performance." This course will function as an interdisciplinary examination of how racial, ethnic, and gender difference is negotiated through popular culture, media, and performance, and how racial, ethnic, and gendered communities use cultural forms to express identity and difference. Among the theoretical questions explored are the politics of representation, agency and authenticity, cultural commodification, transnationalism, and body politics. This course will ask students to consider how one reads a body, a body of work, and take as its basic premise that all bodies ask to be read, whether these bodies are socially, culturally, racially, and sexually coded, or bodies of work. In this course students will trace the historical underpinnings of cultural movements and performances, from the 1960s to the present, in order to underscore the relationship between exercises of everyday life and acts on stage. Some of the cultural forms examined will be cinematic and televisual texts, musical forms, performance art, and theater. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.