AMST 2010

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AMST 2010
Popular Culture in the United States, 1900 - 1945

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

This course deals with American popular culture in the period between 1900 and the end of World War II. As we examine best-sellers, films, sports and television, radio, ads, newspapers, magazines, and music, the goal is to better understand popular culture as "contested terrain," the place where social classes, racial and ethnic groups, women and men, the powerful and the less powerful, seek to "control" images and themes. Topics include the Western; Cultural Heroes and the Cult of Individualism in the 1920s; The Hays Code and the Black Sox scandal; Mae West and the "New Women"; Advertising in an Age of Consumption; Gangsters and G-Men; and Jackie Robinson and the American Dilemma.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (HA-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17197 AMST 2010   LEC 001

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  • 17198 AMST 2010   DIS 201

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  • 17199 AMST 2010   DIS 202

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  • 17201 AMST 2010   DIS 204

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