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Culture and Globalization (550-0-1)

Instructors

Claudio Ezequiel Benzecry

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 3417: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

What is globalization? And how does it affect cultural production? How is it that the cultural products of some countries circulate easier than others? What is the relationship between place and cultural industries? What makes a city a cultural capital? And how is it that cities compete via culture to appropriate economic capital? This course will address these and other questions through an engagement with scholarship on a range of creative industries including fashion, television, music, movies, fine arts, and the high-end food industry. The course is designed to provide a historical and theoretical introduction to the intersection between globalization and cultural production and to allow students to apply that knowledge to a range of contexts.

Class Materials (Required)

No Required textbook. Course Materials will be provided via Canvas.