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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Popular Culture: Theories and Practice

Course Information

Subject: Philosophy (PHIL), European Cultural Studies (ECS)
Number: 366
Language of Instruction: English

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 60 contact hours, 4 semester credits, 6 quarter credits

Availability

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Summary

Considers the roots of Popular Culture in folk and urban culture. Allies the study of Modernist theory in Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Marcuse to postmodern views in Baudrillard and Bourdieu and examines the detail of mass cultural phenomena in radio, telecommunications, film, television, video, popular music, and the press.

Full Description

Considers the roots of Popular Culture in folk and urban culture. Allies the study of Modernist theory in Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Marcuse to postmodern views in Baudrillard and Bourdieu and examines the detail of mass cultural phenomena in radio, telecommunications, film, television, video, popular music, and the press.

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Popular Culture: Theories and Practice

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