Mass Media and Popular Culture

In this blog I usually evaluate individual films at the rate of two a week.  Today I want to write about a unique experience that I have had of using films to educate.  In August I began teaching a sociology class, “Mass Media and Popular Culture,” at Queens College. The class meets at the un-Godly timeslot of 6:30-9:30 on Friday nights and has its final meeting on December 16.  When I was first given this time slot I said, “Who is going to take a class that meets on a Friday night?”  The answer, for me, was an education in and of itself.