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Marina Levina, PhD

Teaching

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Media Criticism Graduate Seminar

An overview of key theories and current trends in critical/cultural studies.
Topics include: power, surveillance, visual culture, border rhetoric, body/disability studies, queer theory, and affect theory.

Science Fiction Film

Examines sci-fi film as a cultural response to contemporary anxieties such as technology, surveillance, race, gender, and the future.
Covers U.S. and international cinema from the 1960s to today.

Critical Cultural Graduate Seminar

Methodologies for analyzing media including semiotics, discourse analysis, and film language.
Emphasis on understanding ideology, representation, and the politics of the gaze.

Monster Films

Exploration of monster films as cultural texts that reflect and organize social anxieties.
Interdisciplinary analysis using horror theory, gender theory, postcolonial and racial critique.

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