Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: RACE, GENDER, AND POLITICS ***** 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 both 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 (from Gay Men's Health Crisis), antiracist film and television (from the black British film collective (Sankofa and Paper Tiger Television), feminist film distribution networks (Big Miss Movieola and Women Make Movies), and various Hollywood productions. Also offered as ENGL 387 and HART 387. *****