We can refuse to cooperate in reproducing it. Or we can work to dismantle it. Media Studies That brings us to another new discipline, Media Studies, which in this course intersects with women's studies. Media Studies is the study of information and entertainment communications. Popular culture is an area of study within Media Studies.
Popular culture includes everything from comic books, to movies, to advertising.
WGSt 201 is an introductory course, and therefore it focuses on mainstream popular culture. For example, in China or India, it's not the poetry of Ezra Pound or the novels of William Faulkner that ordinary people are consuming. Ordinary people around the globe are consuming things like Star Trek . This doesn't mean that you don't see working-class, racialized, female, or gay imagery in it. It just means that you see that imagery almost exclusively from the white male heterosexual perspective.