Course Details
Country:
Germany
Institution:
University of Mannheim
Course Title:
Screening Culture: Race, Class, and Gender in Mainstream Television and Cinema
Course Number:
IDV 402
Course Description:
Television and film have become dominant media of our culture and allow an investigation of how ideology and power shape and are shaped by them, but also how they subvert dominant structures of power. This course introduces students to the vibrant and inherently interdisciplinary field of cultural studies via the media they are perhaps most familiar with, television and cinema, and offers a new and exciting approach to them. Through the study of films and TV shows as diverse as e.g. Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ABC’s The Bachelorette, Disney, Ridley Scott’s Alien or Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, participants will be familiarized with core concepts of race, class, and gender in cultural studies and acquire basic skills in the analysis and interpretation of television and film.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
COMM 365, INTS 399
Attachment Files:
mannheim - idv 402.docx
