Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Paris campus
Course Title:
Introduction to Pop Culture
Course Number:
DHUM-25A17
Course Description:
The class will give the students keys to understand the contemporary international pop-culture, its sources, stereotypes, typical scenarios, stories, characters and the role of Europe, USA and Japan in shaping it. It will focus on the mutual influences between video games, comics, animation, movies, TV shows, novels… The conceptual background will be pragmatic sociology and ethnology. The ethnological conception of “culture” will be the key though the class will not focus on theory but just use it. The class will first present a typology of medias and imaginaries of pop-culture. In the second part, it will offer a selective history of pop-culture focusing on the emergence of the elements that now form the “mainstream” pop-culture.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
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