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FMMC0104A-S25

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. Note to students: this course involves substantial streaming of television for assigned viewing. 3 hrs. lect./disc. / 3 hrs. screen
Course Reference Number (CRN):
21762
Subject Code:
FMMC
Course Number:
0104
Section Identifier:
A

Course

FMMC 0104

All Sections in Spring 2025

Spring 2025

FMMC0104A-S25 Lecture (Mittell)