COM 327 A F - Walt Disney: Cultural Criticism

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Walt Disney: Cultural Criticism (COM 327)

Term: 2024-2025 Spring Semester

Faculty

Leslie M Robison
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Kristine Warrenburg Rome
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Schedule

Mon-Wed-Fri, 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM (1/22/2025 - 5/8/2025) Location: FCSTA PLLRD 207

Description

Prerequisite(s): COM 235 or permission of instructor
This course will explore a media conglomerate as we examine popular artifacts from the World of Disney (including movies, characters, resorts, theme parks, clothing, advertisements, etc.) for what they reveal to us about U.S. American culture. It will look critically at the ways in which Disney has continued to influence our cultural stereotypes of class, gender, and race via concepts of hegemony, power, privilege, marginalization, intersectionality, agency, voice, globalization, and representation. In particular, critical inquiry using Marxist, Rhetorical, Cultural, and Ecological analytical frameworks will be used to introduce power relations in and through media criticism of the Disney Empire.