Description
The course examines popular culture as an important and autonomous
sphere of cultural production and human activity where power is
negotiated within and across different groups. The course is designed to
assess popular culture as a dialogue of local and global texts where popular
culture is read as a product of crossing borders, emerging identities and
shifting meanings. Some of the themes we cover in this regard include
identity, youth, subcultures, fashion and consumption, music, film, dance,
sitcom, comedy, new media, power, cultural imperialism, orientalism
gender and nationalism.