6 Credits | Dr. Leiya LEE
This course explores a range of phenomena thought to characterize middle and late twentieth-century culture, with a particular focus on theory and criticism from the 1970s through the 1990s and into the present. This era encompasses the rise of a more global capitalism, shifts in media production and circulation, major technological changes, the final years of modern colonialism ( the British and French empires) and of the Soviet Union, as well as the transformations of China and Hong Kong. The course will examine the impacts of, and responses to these changes on the part of artists and thinkers across the world. Students will learn keywords such as fragmentation, modernity, intertextuality, pastiche, simulacra, metanarrative, time-space compression, and.more. Literature, film, media, visual arts, architecture, music, and non-fiction may be used to illuminate this period.
Assessment: 100% coursework.