SPAN 482: Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Spanish-Speaking World

SPAN 482-DL1: Mass Media/Pop Culture Spanish
(Spring 2020)

Online

Section Information for Spring 2020

As the enduring and ever-evolving telenovela shows -- from its origins in the radio drama; to its coming-of-age on national networks; to its reshaping on globalized formats -- Latin American mass media and Latin American popular culture are closely entwined. At the university, scholars have researched the Latin American mass media from various angles: as industrial products; as popular culture; and also as works of the imagination. This advanced course in the Spanish B.A. and M.A. program introduces students to several of these approaches in the academic disciplines of communication studies, cultural studies and film and media studies. Students will have an opportunity to apply these approaches in their analysis of historical and contemporary media narratives, including newspapers of the early republics; turn-of-the-century serial novels and radio dramas; comics and industrial film musicals in the age of nationalisms; national telenovelas in the dawn of television and globalized telenovelas in the digital present.

Recommended prerequisites: SPAN 370, 385, and 390; students may also register with professor’s permission. Course taught in Spanish and entirely online | Cross-listed with SPAN 512 DL. 

SPAN 482-DL1 is a distance education section.

Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Critical examination of the significance of mass media and/or popular culture for the development of Spanish-speaking nation-states in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Forms studied may include but are not limited to: Newspapers, popular novels, lithography, photography, radio, film, television, public art, sport, performance, digital media. Students will use readings in critical theory to explore ways in which forms of mass and popular culture connect to social imaginaries. Enhancement of advanced analytical skills in Spanish through different modules of lecture, reading, discussion, and writing. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
Recommended Prerequisite: SPAN 305/306 or 309 or 315, SPAN 370, SPAN 385, SPAN 390.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
Additional Course Details: Taught in Spanish

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