Communication 494P - S-Advanced Popular Culture

As a form of entertainment and industry, and as a route to pleasure and self-discovery, popular culture takes up a lot of time and space in our lives. This course is pays scholarly and critical attention to popular culture, to understand the industries, pleasures, and stories that captivate us. We especially consider "cultural production": the making, circulation and reception of cultural forms; the practices people undertake as producers and fans; the meanings they, or we, make and circulate; and the many layers of social and cultural context that help us undertake those practices as cultural participants and understand them as scholars.

COMM Seniors only.