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Week 2 - What is Popular Culture?
1/23-1/25
John Storey CTPC, Ch. 1
***Our text book has a companion review website that you might find useful in checking your understanding of each chapter***
Linda Holmes. A Few Notes on Pop Culture Writing. NPR
Reviews of Hallmark Christmas Movies
- Cassie Belek for The Washington Post
- Todd VanDerWerff for VOX
- Zachary Jason for Slate

Week 4
9/18-9/20
What is a text? (hint: everything!)


Week 6
The LA Times - Authenticity in Casting - From 'Colorblind' to "Color Conscious'
On Blackboard
Mayer, Vicki, Miranda J. Banks, and John T. Caldwell, eds. “Intro,” Production studies: Cultural studies of media industries. Routledge, 2009.
Kristen Warner, Intro to The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting. Routledge, 2015.
Henderson, Felicia D. "The culture behind closed doors: issues of gender and race in the writers' room." Cinema Journal 50, no. 2 (2011): 145-152.
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