WGS 2080 Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture: Icons, Images and Representations

This course examines gendered icons, sexualized images, and queer representations in a variety of contexts, focusing on popular culture and the media. The relationship between media icons, images, representations, and ideas about gender/women/sexuality/queerness/ability in a racialized and classed society will be explored. Readings will focus on authorship, spectatorship, production, and media content from feminist film theory, queer theory, cultural studies, digital media studies, and game studies. Popular culture has also been a site of political and social struggles for cultural expression and assertion of identities. In a rapidly changing media landscape, the role of the critical consumer of popular culture will also be explored.

Credits: 3.0