Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Popular Media

3 units

This course is an introduction to methods in media and cultural studies. We will analyze intersections of media with race, gender, and sexuality by focusing on television and digital media examples. The course begins by exploring questions of representation in media then continues by interrogating how media are implicated in existing structures of inequality and differences of social and cultural power. We will end by discussing some ways that scholars have theorized media consumers as actively engaging with media texts, including scholarship on fan cultures and social media. Required screenings.