Prerequisites: ETST 001 or ETST 001H, ETST 100; or consent of instructor
Description: Offers an interdisciplinary and theoretical approach to the study of various popular film and television genres in relation to the production—and contestation—of racial meaning. Concerned with the material significance of film and television as, simultaneously, “entertainment,” “pleasure,” “mass culture,” “(self-)representation,” and “cultural resistance or insurgency.” Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.