Media and Politics of Propaganda

  • NINT 5136 - Media and Politics of Propaganda (Spring 2010)

Section A/CRN 7081 (syllabus)
Nina L. Khrushcheva
Tuesday 6.00pm - 7.50pm
Room: 66 W. 12th St., 619

This course will examine the propaganda symbolism of American ideology in the pre-post and Cold War periods. We will consider ways in which the patriotic American ideology, Americanism, have been represented in various media forms—printed press, television, film and recently in new social media. We will look at other countries that use their own PR and propaganda to deliver their own political and ideological message.  Specifically, we will focus on the propaganda symbolism that carried out the ideology of the two former most prominent political rivals—the United States and the Soviet Union. We will deliberate on how this symbolism has been translated, transformed, and reused in communist China, the religious Middle East, as well as in America’s post-9-11 “global war on terror.” We will also investigate the elections campaigns around the world with a particular focus on the new technology-enhanced PR formulas of the Obama era.

Concentration:Media and Culture