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AMST 0104

Television & American Culture

Television and American Culture
This course explores American life in the last seven decades through an analysis of our central medium: television. Spanning a history of television from its origins in radio to today’s digital convergence via YouTube and Netflix, we will consider television's role in both representing and constituting American society through a variety of approaches, including: the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of various television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, the medium's technological transformations, and television as a site of global cultural exchange. 3 hrs. lect./disc. / 3 hrs. screen
Subject:
American Studies
Department:
Program in American Studies
Division:
Interdisciplinary
Requirements Fulfilled:
AMR SOC
Equivalent Courses:
FMMC 0236
AMCV 0236
AMST 0236
FMMC 0104 *

Sections

Spring 2025

AMST0104A-S25 Lecture (Mittell)

Spring 2024

AMST0104A-S24 Lecture (Mittell)

Spring 2023

AMST0104A-S23 Lecture (Mittell)
AMST0104Z-S23 Screening (Mittell)

Fall 2021

AMST0104A-F21 Lecture (Mittell)

Spring 2021

AMST0104A-S21 Lecture (Mittell)
AMST0104W-S21 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104X-S21 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104Y-S21 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104Z-S21 Discussion (Mittell)

Fall 2020

AMST0104A-F20 Lecture (Mittell)
AMST0104W-F20 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104X-F20 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104Y-F20 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104Z-F20 Discussion (Mittell)

Fall 2019

AMST0104A-F19 Lecture (Mittell)

Spring 2019

AMST0104A-S19 Lecture (Dobreva)

Spring 2018

AMST0104A-S18 Lecture (Mittell)

Spring 2017

AMST0104A-S17 Lecture (Mittell)

Spring 2016

AMST0104A-S16 Lecture (Mittell)

Spring 2015

AMST0104A-S15 Lecture (Stein)

Fall 2014

AMST0104A-F14 Lecture (Mittell)

Spring 2014

AMST0104A-S14 Lecture (Mittell)

Fall 2012

AMST0104A-F12 Lecture (Mittell)

Spring 2012

AMST0104A-S12 Lecture (Stein)
AMST0104B-S12 Lecture (Stein)
AMST0104Z-S12 Screening (Stein)

Fall 2010

AMST0104A-F10 Lecture (Mittell)
AMST0104X-F10 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104Y-F10 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104Z-F10 Discussion (Mittell)

Fall 2009

AMST0104A-F09 Lecture (Mittell)
AMST0104W-F09 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104X-F09 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104Y-F09 Discussion (Mittell)

Fall 2008

AMST0104A-F08 Lecture (Mittell)
AMST0104W-F08 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104X-F08 Discussion (Mittell)
AMST0104Y-F08 Discussion (Mittell)