Description: Lecture, three hours. Introduction to theoretical approaches to popular and mass culture, and to postcolonial and Francophone cultures. Topics include emergent disciplines and theories such as sociology and structuralism, city, revolution, avant-garde strategies, media, diaspora during postwar modernization, Algerian War, May 68, and beyond. Theorists include Barthes, de Certeau, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Ross, Rey Chow, Virilio. S/U or letter grading.

Units: 4.0