Film & Media Studies 377 - Women, Gender, Pop Cul

Spring
2021
01
4.00
Aneeka Henderson
TTH 11:50AM-01:10PM
Amherst College
FAMS-377-01-2021S
ONLI ONLI
ahenderson@amherst.edu
SWAG-105-01,FAMS-377-01

(Offered as SWAG 105 and FAMS 377) In this course, students will interrogate the precarious relationship between political and popular culture. As we study how politics has successfully deployed popular culture as an ideological tool, we will also consider how politics has overburdened popular culture as a vehicle of change. These broad issues will serve as our framework for analyzing black femininity, womanhood, and the efficacy of the word “feminism” in the post-Civil Rights era. We will think critically about the construction of gender, race, sexuality, and class identity as well as the historical and sociopolitical context for cultural icons and phenomena. Students will read cultural theory, essays, fiction as well as listen to, and watch various forms of media. Expectations include three writing/visual projects as well as a group presentation.

All class meetings will occur remotely and consist of lecture and small group discussions throughout the semester.

This course fulfills a requirement for the Five College Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice (RHRJ) certificate.

Limited to 18 students. Spring semester. Professor Henderson.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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