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Spring 2012
May 01,2024 |
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| LIBS 625 - POPULAR CULTURE: IMAGES OF OURSELVES |
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Movies, television, music, advertising, the popular press all create attractive images and tell compelling, funny, and sometimes frightening stories which often seem to come from the real world right around us. There is much melodramatic sex and violence, plenty of romanticism, fantasy, greed, and desire. But there are also important elements of realism which reflect, acknowledge, comment on, or even satirize important social issues and tensions. It has become conventional to blame mass media and popular culture for what we don't like about our society, to regard them as powerful conspiracies against traditional values. However, the situation is actually much more dynamic and interesting than that, often open to a surpassing variety of understandings depending upon who one is or where positioned. This course will explore various strategies for interpreting popular culture to consider what it says about our time and how it affects our individual and social lives.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Majors: Liberal Studies Non-Degree-MALS |
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