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This course explores popular cultural "makings" of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality through typical representation of gender within popular culture. Investigating diverse cultural forms such as TV series, film, and music videos, this course will look into the ways in which gendered and sexual identities are shaped by, and in turn shape, popular understandings of gender. In particular, we will analyze how such critical factors as ethnicity, race, gender, class, age, region, and sexuality are constructed in popular culture. In our analyses we will focus on the TV series Desperate Housewives, The L-Word, Ugly Betty, the movies Thelma and Louise and Brokeback Mountain, and the music videos of Madonna and Lady Gaga.
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A course reader will be made available for purchase. |
