Live Entertainment & Popular Culture - MEFT2351
 
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of English, Media and Performing Arts
 
 
Course Outline: http://media.arts.unsw.edu.au//
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Excluded: PFST2009, THFI2010
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Tracks the influence of popular performance genres on contemporary culture, looking at vaudeville, burlesque, radio and 1950s television. Develops theories of popular culture including the discourse of value and applies these to a variety of case studies in contemporary culture and media.