FMS 520 Cultural History of US Television: Theory & Method
Professor Bambi Haggins

This course is designed to engage both the theory and methods of cultural studies as implemented in the study of US television (from the 1940s to the present). While television programming will be 'read' in terms of genre as well as its historical and industrial context, the cultural studies focus of the class requires that televisual texts be examined as cultural artifacts that reflect and refract issues of class, gender, nation, race, region and sexual orientation.