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University of Canterbury - American Political Culture(s): Dissent and Discontent

This course explores a variety of social processes which have tended to critique, subvert or reject a consensus of contentment in modern and post-modern America.
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University of Canterbury - The Screening of America: Film and Media in US Culture

This course surveys American motion pictures and television, with particular emphasis on their commerical orientation, their technical and stylistic distinctiveness, and their massive sociocultural influence in America and worldwide.
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University of Canterbury - American Literature

A broad introduction to American literature, with the emphasis on twentieth century fiction. The programme is structured around three key terms: romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism.
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University of Canterbury - From Rags to Swing: the Evolution of Jazz

This course reviews the evolution of jazz as an art form from its earliest origins, through a study of the personalities, styles and key elements, to its emergence as a major international musical phenomenon.
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University of Canterbury - Selling the American Dream: Brand USA© and the Global Marketplace

In this course we will critically examine the development of the American corporation, the rise of American consumer culture, the development of advertising and promotionallism in modern and postmodern contexts, the emergence of multinationals and the relationships between American cultural products and the complex flows of globalization. By exploring the contested spaces of both promotional and consumption practices, the course will introduce students to material that seeks to complicate our often taken-for-granted assumptions about the increasingly global marketplace of culture and consumption.
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University of Canterbury - Ethnicity and Identity

This course explores the historical and cultural complexities involved in the construction of identity based on ethnicity, as well as the intersections between ethnicity, race, gender, and class.
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University of Canterbury - Rebellious Bodies: Rock and Roll and Postwar American Media Culture

This course analyses the iconography of rock and roll through a critical examination of the ways in which race, gender, class, sexuality and generational conflict are articulated in post war media culture.
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