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AMST1004A-W11

American Crime and Violence

American Representations of Crime and Violence
In this course we will study American portrayals of crime and violence through a variety of media and in a number of historical contexts. We will assess cultural artifacts (fictional and non-fictional texts, music, movies, magazines, art, television shows, video games, and material objects) that provide us with a larger sense of how these representations function in the formation of categories of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, ethics and religion, as well as socio-economic class. Texts and films will range from detective fiction to Pulp Fiction and from the street photography of Weegee to pictures of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
11273
Subject Code:
AMST
Course Number:
1004
Section Identifier:
A

Course

AMST 1004

All Sections in Winter 2011

Winter 2011

AMST1004A-W11 Lecture (Lint Sagarena)