Description: Prereq- uisite(s): ETST 001 or ETST 001H, ETST 100; or consent of instructor. Offers an interdisciplinary and theoretical approach to the study of various popular film and television genres in relation to the produc- tion--and contestation--of racial meaning. Concerned with the material significance of film and televi- sion 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.