79-249 American Culture from the Dime Novel to the Ebook

Units: 9.0 Department: History Related URLs: http://www.history.cmu.edu This course examines how popular literature and, later, film shaped American culture over the past two hundred years. It looks not simply at how cultural artifacts shaped identity, but how, as material objects, they were produced, distributed, and consumed. It also raises questions about how audiences appropriated these artifacts, using them, to quote historian Paul Buhle, "to make sense of their lives and to resolve "realistically or fancifully" the contradictions that beset them." Finally, it situates these artifacts in their historical contexts by asking students to think about the relationship they had to dominant views toward politics, religion, race, class, and gender.

Popularity index Rank for this semester: #0 Rank in this department: #0   Students also scheduled 54-481 History of Drama 24-354 General Robotics 18-396 Signals and Systems 15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems 54-294 Make-Up 80-335 Seminar: Philosophy Politics and Ec... 79-242 African-American History II 79-104 Introduction to World History 80-346 Value Fact and Policy 82-161 Elementary Italian I

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No sections available for semester Spring 2005.