WGSS 483ACensorship

Catalog

WGSS 483A Censorship - This course explores how censorship has been theorized in trans/national contexts. In moving away from a national focus on censorship, this course hopes to make visible overlaps between practices of state censorship, non-government regulation, and corporate control. This new analytical framework would also enable us to consider the circulation of controversial texts in a global marketplace where it produces subjects, discussion, and profits. In addition to locating questions of censorship in transnational context, we will also consider practices of censorship across mediums, examining cases involving books, music, film, and the Internet. Finally, we will attend to the means by which technology reinforces, enables, and challenges censorship.