AMST 2020

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AMST 2020
Popular Culture in the United States, 1950 to the Present

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

AMST 2020 treats the period from 1950 to the present as we examine best-sellers, films, sports and television, radio, ads, newspapers, magazines, and music. We try to better understand the ways in which popular culture shapes and/or reflects American values. The course also depicts popular culture as "contested terrain," the place where social classes, racial and ethnic groups, women and men, the powerful and less powerful seek to "control" images and themes. Topics include The Honeymooners and 1950s television, soap operas; "gross-out" movies; Elvis; the Beatles, and Guns 'n Roses; gothic romances; and People Magazine and USA Today.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (HA-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Dynamic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1003 AMST 2020   LEC 001

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    • TBA
    • Dec 26, 2014 - Jan 17, 2015

    • Altschuler, G

      Pickett, J

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning - WWW
    For more information go to: http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ws/courses/courses.php?v=1540