WMST 240 - Gender in American Popular Media

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

Through the analysis of a range of media including film, television, advertising, music and digital culture, along with the reading of a number of important critical and theoretical texts, we interrogate the way that gender is constructed, represented and consumed in American popular media. An interdisciplinary combination of feminist theory, queer theory, media studies and cultural studies provides the tools for critical inquiry into the production and performance of normative and alternative gender and sexual identities and help us consider their various intersections with race, class, ethnicity and dis/ability. Students learn to meaningfully and critically engage with these popular forms to become discerning cultural consumers and creators. Anne Brancky.

Prerequisite(s): WMST 130.

Two 75-minute periods.