- CC 325 DX - Media & Culture in East Asia
- 3 or 4 Credits
MWF 12:55-1:45pm - Professor Prough
(Cross-listed with EAST 390BX - fulfills Diversity requirement)
This course will explore the relationship between culture and mass media, focusing on the particular cases of modern Japan and China. From an anthropological vantage point we will examine the ways that media are influenced by the culture in which they are produced, as well as the ways that media in turn affect culture. Inherent in these questions are issues of cultural production, representation, and power. Examining film, television, cartoons, and music, experientially as well as through pertinent scholarly texts, we will address topics such as the role of the state in structuring media, representations of gender and tradition in contemporary media, new media and social movements, and the implications of the global spread of media texts. Both in class and through written assignments students will try their hand at critical media analysis.
Requirements: Students will write a research paper for this class. Additionally, a course on media requires time to watch films; students will be required to watch 7 films outside of class time in preparation for discussion. All films will be shown Mondays at 7:00 p.m. (CC Cinema).
