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2011-2012 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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HIST 163 - American Popular and Material Culture

Semester Hours: 3
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The artifacts and processes of handcraft culture, their transformation by industrialism and mass production and the rise of mass culture in the post-industrial era. Special attention is given to the tools and objects of everyday life, popular amusements and recreations, folklore and popular literature, advertising and the cult of personality, the impact of the mass media, the commercialization of sex and pornography and the video revolution.





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