CM 368 - Entertainment, Media, and Politics

(3.00 cr.)

Students explore how a range of entertainment media (comedy, melodrama, the sitcom, film, etc.) reflects the intersection of politics and culture. The course reviews political themes in entertainment content and the rise of politics as spectacle and entertainment. While the course has a contemporary focus it also looks at the history behind the mixing of entertainment and politics.

Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually