Connections 20088. From Manet to Colbert: "Negotiating New
Media" Modernism and Mass Culture ARTH 250 examines French
modern art as a series of responses to the forms of an emergent
mass culture in the 19th-century: lithography, photography,
newspapers, the cafe-concert and other commercial
entertainments. Media and Society SOC 175 explores the political
and economic exigencies of the production of more recent and
contemporary forms of mass-produced culture—radio, television,
film, social media—in the 20th and 21st centuries. In both
courses, students are asked to consider how media
representations are constructed ideologically, and not
transparent descriptions of a historical moment. They are
encouraged to examine the ways in which media reveals the values
of the culture that produced it. Because both courses highlight
creative responses to mass produced culture (alternative art
movements in ARTH 250 and new forms of media creation in SOC
175), this connection offers a meaningful cross-examination of
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