Asian Americans and Popular Culture (247-0-1)

Instructors

Raymond San Diego
Crowe 1-125

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-415: Mon, Wed 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

This course introduces students to both historical and contemporary representations and expressions of Asian Americans in mainstream, independent, and alternative models of media. Such sites of production and reception include: documentaries, narrative film, television, print media, music, social media, literature/memoirs, video games, and more. A central focus of this course will be the various tensions that emerge vis-à-vis multiple and competing interpretations about the meanings, purposes, and affects of media for/in/about Asian Americans. Students will engage the power, pain, and pleasure of race, gender, sexuality, class, immigration, nationalism, health, and other topics through/within the multiple mediascapes of Asian America.

Please be aware some texts and media might be too explicitly violent, graphic, or sexual for some students. Such films and readings are used to demonstrate the power and diversity of representations and expressions of Asian America.

Class Materials (Required)

No Materials Need to Be Purchased for this class

Class Notes

Attendance at first class is mandatory

Class Attributes

Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area
U.S. Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity