COMM 431 - Effects and Representation from Popular Films (3 credits)

Explores the communication of identity and representation in popular movies, from audience rather than creator perspectives. Focuses on the social, political, economic, and historical contexts in which such film representations emerged and evolved, as well as misrepresentation, exploitation, and appropriation of identities in messages experienced by mainstream audiences. Film techniques are explored from audience, film criticism, and communication perspectives, as are audience uses and effects of the films. F, S, Su.