Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Media Cultures

3 credits · Undergraduate

(1.5 hrs Lecture | 1.5 hrs Seminar/Discussion) Using multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, this course addresses how gendered analysis - intersectional feminist, queer, trans, postmodern, anti-colonial, cultural, and critical race theory - illuminates popular media, including film, television, streaming, social media, and digital content. We explore the transformative potential of popular media cultures to re-imagine hegemonic and mainstream notions of sex, sexuality, gender, race, class, age, ethnicity, Indigeneity, nationality, and/or ability, among others. We examine genres, creators, audiences, performers, and/or texts. Possible objects of analysis include soap operas, horse operas, documentaries, reality TV, parasocial relationships/interactions, intercultural cinema, transnational video art, cinematic transgender and transbiology, and representations of violence.