AMES 5920 is also offered in Spring 2024
AMES 5920 is also offered in Fall 2023
Fall 2020 | AMES 5920 Section 001: Topics in Asian Culture -- Media Theory and Fan Culture (32998)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (15 of 17 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- This course explores the theories, debates, and challenges surrounding the study of fan culture and its relationship with media and cultural theory. Its central problematic is the question of how media forms and technologies engender particular practices of spectatorship and consumption. Topics of discussion will include spectatorial practice between cinema and animation, media convergence and participatory culture, intersections of gender/sexuality and fan practice, fan work as immaterial labor, politics of world-making, etc.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32998/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 April 2020
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Classes