Middlebury

AMST0104A-F19

Television & American Culture
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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
Course Reference Number (CRN):
92570
Subject Code:
AMST
Course Number:
0104
Section Identifier:
A

Course

AMST 0104

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Fall 2019

AMST0104A-F19 Lecture (Mittell)