Popular Culture and Creative Culture (COMM327)
Trimester 2 / 2014

Description

This unit introduces approaches to popular culture and the high-low labels imposed upon cultural practices and products. Students will analyse and critically and creatively respond to cultural texts and practices (such as visual narratives, celebrity, identity and genre and popular fiction) and examine how these work ideologically to position audiences, readers and participants.

Assessment

Written Task: 50%

Final Exam: 50%

Supplementary Texts

The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

Other Details

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Offered in: 2012, 2010
Current Campus: Armidale
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