CMN 375

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Popular Media and Culture

Credit: 3 hours.

Using the critical lens of theories on race, class, gender, and sexuality, this class will investigate the complicated relations among popular media and culture, including how our everyday life and attitudes are thought to be shaped by the media, and how cultural systems can be said to inform the media. By exploring a wide range of media (e.g., film, television, music, the internet, and computer games), students will investigate the national, political, and personal dimensions of popular media and the varied ways in which media construct, reflect and intersect with specific cultural systems, identities, and classifications.

May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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CMN 375 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52635	Lecture	PG	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	112 Gregory Hall	Gill, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Title: American Gangster Films Section Info: This course examines the classic American genre of gangster films from its inception to recent reworkings. The typical gangster saga is something of a celebration of undisciplined American entrepreneurial spirit, unrestrained vitality, and gritty enterprise. Gangster films always suggest that there is something fearfully, fatally wrong with gang lords, however, that in some way their climb to power is generated by displaced sexual energy. By looking at exemplary selections of this genre and reading pertinent theoretical essays, the class will examine the narrative premises, gender constructions, and visual strategies of gangster films, assessing their historical significance as well as their explorations of a social identity that both violates and confirms traditional American values.