WS 322A - Gender and the Media

Institution:

Merrimack College

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Description:

Film, television, radio and music and other media artifacts are the material from which we forge parts of our identities including our gender: what it means to be women, men, or transgender. Media images help shape and reflect our views of the world around us and our deepest values. As a cultural story-teller media guides us on how to be women and men, what to think, feel, believe and desire. Media spectacles dramatize who has power and who is powerless. In this course we will explore media representations of gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, and age in advertising, film, music, magazines and more. We will address issues of social inequality in the media and explore alternative media, media literacy, and media democracy. We will explore how different audiences read the media. Finally we will experiment with creating our own media as students create group videos about gender. Three hours a week.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.merrimack.edu

Phone Number:

(978) 837-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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