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Course Overview
Introduction to Media Studies/ Proseminar in Transcultural Anglophone Studies and Cultural Studies II is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia environment and want to become more literate and critical consumers and producers of culture. In the first half of the semester we will look at the nature of mediated communication, the functions of media, the history of transformations in media and the institutions that help define media's place in society as well as we will review the main theoretical and analytical frameworks involved in the analysis of mass media texts, in particular audiovisual ones. Whereas, in the second half of the course we will concentrate on a particular topic to examine how media "works" within our society as meaning-making agents and spaces. We will focus on immigration and its social and political consequences in Britain and how these topics are dealt with in movies. Questions of race, identity and multiculturalism in Britain will be discussed through the analysis of films such as My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), My Son The Fanatic (1997), and Bend It Like Beckham (2002). |
