MEDIA & SOCIETY 204 - Imagining the West:The Myth and The Media

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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The image of the West in American culture is both real and imagined, historical and mythic. The so-called "frontier experience" has defined significant aspects of cultural life and continues to exert a hold on the imagination of Americans-and those beyond our shores. This class examines the West as an ideological construct formed in by both facts and legends, but most importantly, communicated and sustained by the mass media. Indeed, television and film productions have made the West as a vital part of American history and a continuing facet of our everyday lives, and that is the focus of the class. (Friedma n, Fall

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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