Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: CULTURAL STUDIES: RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION ***** How are categories of identity constituted through culture? How does capital investment affect the forms of cultural expression? This course will examine the uses of audiovisual media in the production and contestation of racial and gender identities in mainstream and oppositional forms of culture. We will consider theories of representation and subjectivity, in relation to questions about the politics and economics of the mass media, experimental art forms, community-based activist video, and independent film production. Examples will be drawn from Latin American grassroots video (such as Chiapas Media Project), queer safer sex videos (Gay Men's Health Crisis), antiracist film and television (Sankofa, Paper Tiger Television), feminist film distribution networks (Big Miss Movieola, Women Make Moves), and various Hollywood productions. ***** Also offered as HART 387 and WGST 387. ***** INSTRUCTOR: Ostherr, Kirsten Repeatable for Credit.