- Use Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt’s “The Queer Popular: Genre and Perverse Economies of Scale” to analyze Veneno (HBO Max).
- Use Anamik Saha’s "‘Diversity’ in Media and Cultural policy" and "The Racialisation of the Cultural Commodity" to analyze McKinsey’s “Black Representation in Film and TV: The Challenges and Impact of Increasing Diversity.”
- Use Aynne Kokas’s “Policy and Superheroes: China and Hollywood in Sino-US Relations” to analyze the Chinese blockbuster Wolf Warrior 2 (Amazon Prime).
- Use 2 of the following readings on media development:
· Seyram Avle, “Situating Ghana’s New Media Industry: Liberalization and Transnational Entrepreneurship”
· Alessandro Jedlowski, “Chinese Television in Africa”
· Godwin Iretomiwa Simon, “Adapting to Context: Creative Strategies of Video Streaming Services in Nigeria”
· Débora Póvoa and Stijn Reijnders, “A Brazilian Hollywood in the Making? Film, Tourism and Creative City Discourse in the Hinterland of Paraíba”.