MCS 152 (E-Z): Televisual Bodies

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours

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Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor

Description: Analyzes choreographic practices within television broadcast and marketing and their relation to popular culture. Also examines situational or tactical use and misuse of satellite, cablecast, and broadcast television by unintentional audiences that subsequently reconstitute themselves as communities via the programming. Focuses on video as an archival and/or choreographic tool. J. Corporations and Corporealities: Commercials, Culture, and Choreography; K. Television as Location: The Satellite Feed; M. Music Television (MTV) and Popular Culture. Segments are repeatable. Cross-listed with DNCE 172 (E-Z). Fulfills the Fine Arts requirement in the College Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.