MDST 4109
Civil Rights Movement and the Media
Course Description
Pre-Requisite(s):
Students should have completed either MDST 2000 Introduction to Media Studies or AMST 2001 Formations of American Cultural Studies
Course examines the crucial relationship between the Civil Rights Movement and mass media from 1950s through early 1970s, looking at a variety of media forms: Hollywood cinema, network television, mainstream newspapers, photojournalism, the black press, and news as primary documents that can tell us something about American race relations during this period and how the nation responded to challenges posed by a powerful social change movement.
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