Teaching American Media and Popular Culture: Expansion, Inclusion, Interdisciplinarity
This is a reflection on my experiences in teaching American media at the Swedish Institute for American studies from 2015 to 2021. By way of concrete descriptions of classes taught and topics raised, I make a case for an approach to popular media that looks beyond both an all-too-limited focus on “...
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This is a reflection on my experiences in teaching American media at the Swedish Institute for American studies from 2015 to 2021. By way of concrete descriptions of classes taught and topics raised, I make a case for an approach to popular media that looks beyond both an all-too-limited focus on “mass media” and the text-centric, hermeneutically based discussions about media representations that have otherwise been the most common way of engaging with media in American studies. I also discuss challenges of interdisciplinarity that are a key concern not only when teaching media, but for the field of American studies more broadly.
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| spelling | doaj-art-dcee9ee894e14fc394039f0ecf4208ea2025-01-18T15:22:52ZengCBS Open JournalsAmerican Studies in Scandinavia0044-80602024-12-0156210.22439/asca.v56i2.7379Teaching American Media and Popular Culture: Expansion, Inclusion, InterdisciplinarityJoel Frykholm0Stockholm University This is a reflection on my experiences in teaching American media at the Swedish Institute for American studies from 2015 to 2021. By way of concrete descriptions of classes taught and topics raised, I make a case for an approach to popular media that looks beyond both an all-too-limited focus on “mass media” and the text-centric, hermeneutically based discussions about media representations that have otherwise been the most common way of engaging with media in American studies. I also discuss challenges of interdisciplinarity that are a key concern not only when teaching media, but for the field of American studies more broadly. https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/assc/article/view/7379American mediapopular culturemedia spectaclemedia and everyday lifeglobalizationmedia and politics |
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