MS 124 PO

Course examines the way media producers of Muslim and Middle Eastern background are representing themselves in contemporary American Media. We will look at history of representations of Islam and MidEast in order to understand how filmmakers, TV producers, social media influencers & celebrities are defining their identity today. The course will also study what it means to "self represent" in general and study examples of feminist and queer self-representation and the way these identities intersect with Islamic and Mid Eastern identity. In the process we will see how being "Muslim", "Middle Eastern", and "American" are being redefined in our contemporary mediascape.