Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Gender and Celebrity Culture: Global Media, Everyday Lives
Using celebrity case studies the course explored questions of media production, identity, visibility, activism and social and cultural change and discussed how feminist research has used celebrity culture to make sense of gendered, racial, classed and sexual identities.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Debra Ferreday
Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
Lancaster University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Apply basic media theory to a range of media texts
- Demonstrate an understanding of key concepts in feminist media and cultural studies
- Engage with current scholarship in celebrity studies
- Reflect on your own relationship with popular media
- Discuss the relationship between media, gender and other aspects of identity
- Explore a range of media platforms and artefacts to make sense of celebrity culture
Syllabus
- Introduction to gender and media theory
- Gender, celebrity and the gaze
- Celebrity, Youth and Aspiration
- Celebrity and the family
- Celebrity, Death and Mourning
- Masculinity in the media
- Celebrity feminists and celebrity activism
Issued on 17th January 2022
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