MEDS 382 - Latin America and the Media

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

(Same as LALS 382) This course explores how media production and theory in Latin America has, in contrast to Anglo-American-European media theory, required a theorization located in the conditions of Postcoloniality, Subalterity, Diaspora, and Transnationalism. We approach the cultural, economic and political dimensions of mass media through the works of media analysts such as: Jesús Martín Barbero (Colombia), Néstor García Canclini (Argentina and Mexico), Beatriz Sarlo (Argentina), Ariel Dorfman (Chile), Jorge González (Mexico), Nelly Richard (Chile), Renato Ortiz (Brazil) Carlos Monsivais (Mexico) and Guillermo Gómez Peña (Mexico) , Manuel Castells (Spain) among others. The course couples the exploration of Latin American media theory with analysis of media producers and phenomena as seen in local/global Television and Internet exchanges, media performance groups (for example, Yuyachkani), the Telenovela and B-movie industry, Third Cinema, pre-Colombian texts, graphics and comics, and urban-mediascapes. Questions we ask are: What are the forms of autochthonous media that have arisen out of the Latin American social reality? How do we theorize local and global media convergence, transmedia interactivity, and remediation in the context of the Hispanic Transatlantic. Ms. Woods Peiró.

Not offered in 2012/13.