MIT Film & Media Studies
Program/Studies in International Literature and Culture
Program
21F 830 Global
Culture
Fall semester 1995
T
7-9:30/4-249
Professor Martin Roberts
The globalization of capitalism, the proliferation of media and communications
networks, and the increasing mobilization of the world's population have in recent decades destabilized conventional notions of ethnicity and nationhood, redefined the meaning of community, and led to the emergence of new, increasingly hybridized forms of culture. Drawing on theoretical approaches in contemporary cultural studies, this course examines these new forms of cultural production in a variety of media (travel writing, film, music, art) and discourses (advertising, tourism, fashion), and assesses the wider cultural implications of the intensifying traffic of capital, commodities, information, and people circulating around the globe.
Martin Roberts homepage
mroberts@mit.edu
byron@mit.edu
