Giving a talk at the University of Toledo next week about the role of television in American cultural traditions.
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POPC 6660: TV as Popular Culture
This graduate seminar provides a basic introduction to critical television studies, by looking historically and thematically at key concepts and texts that have influenced television criticism and theory. Looking at a variety of kinds of TV programming, we examine themes such as gender, race, class, sexuality, postmodernism, and critical approaches and methodologies such as genre analysis, narrative analysis, textual analysis and ethnography. This interdisciplinary course is intended for students with a moderate amount of background in the critical approaches and philosophies of humanities-based scholarship – for example, familiarity with fields such as literary studies, film studies, critical/cultural studies, or feminist studies will help you to be successful in the course.
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POPC 2310: TV Sitcoms
This class provides an introduction to the study of situation comedy, asking questions such as:
• What makes sitcoms funny?
• Which sitcoms have influenced television the most?
• How are sitcoms related to social values and structures?
• How do sitcoms affect people’s beliefs?
• How are sitcoms constructed?
• Which sitcoms have influenced television the most?
• How are sitcoms related to social values and structures?
• How do sitcoms affect people’s beliefs?
• How are sitcoms constructed?
POPC 2600: Popular Culture Research
This research methods course helps Popular Culture majors and minors understand the process of conducting popular culture research. Students speak with popular culture scholars about their work, learn the major theoretical concepts and methods used in the field, and conduct their own original research project on areas of popular culture that interest them.
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POPC 3500: Watching the Detectives
This feminist cultural studies class examines the relationship of gender to the representation of crime in U.S. television and film. It asks such questions as:
• How does violence relate to social beliefs about gender?
• Why are representations of violence so popular – what do we enjoy about them?
• What are the gender conventions of crime genres like the murder mystery and the police drama, and how have these genres changed over time?
• What changes occur when investigators of crime are women, or when victims of crime are men?
• How does the reality of violent crime compare to its representation?
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