Course ID: | JRLC(LACS) 5060. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Telenovelas, Culture, and Society |
Course Description: | Examination of the connections between media, culture, and
society as participants study the world's most watched television
genre: the Latin American telenovela. The class focuses on the
genre's contexts of production, consumption, regulation, and
globalization, and analyzes telenovelas as a public forum for the
negotiation of sociocultural issues. |
Oasis Title: | TELENOVELAS & SOC |
Prerequisite: | SPAN 2002 |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | • To become familiar with communication concepts and tools that
are used in critical and cultural approaches to mass media
studies.
• To analyze the ideological, rhetorical and cultural
underpinnings of telenovelas.
• To understand the commercial and aesthetic dimensions of
telenovelas, and their social uses
• To examine how processes of industrialization and
globalization have made thier mark on the telenovela genre |
Topical Outline: | Week 1: Conceptualizing Cultural and Critical Media Studies
Week 2: Telenovela: What is it? Telenovela Typology
Week 3: History of the Telenovela
Week 4: The Telenovela Text: Representation
Week 5: The Telenovela Text: Identities
Week 6: Telenovela Production in Latin America
Week 7: Telnovela Production in the United States
Week 8: Telenovela Consumption in Latin America
Week 9: Telenovela Consumption in the United States
Week 10: Telenovela Consumption in Europe, Africa and Asia
Week 11: Telenovelas and the Regulation of Latin American
Cultural Life
Week 12: Regulating Telenovelas
Week 13: The Political Economy of Telenovelas
Week 14: Race, Gender and Telenovelas
Week 15: Telenovela Industry Survival Strategies |