| Jan. 16: | Introduction | |
| Jam. 18: | Karl Marx
and Frederick Engels, "The Communist Manifesto" (1848) John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972) |
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| Jan. 23: | Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994): chapter 1 | |
| Jan. 25: | Karl Marx,
Capital, vol. 1 (1867): chapter 1, "Commodities"; chapter
6, "The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power" Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology (1845-46): part I, section A, "Idealism and Materialism" Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852): part III Karl Marx, preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) |
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| Jan. 30: | Marx/Marx and Engels essays, continued | |
| Feb. 1: | Georg
Lukács, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat"
(1923) Antonio Gramsci, selections from Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929-1935, 1949) |
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| Feb. 6: | Walter
Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
(1939) Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (1944) |
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| Feb. 8: | Louis
Althusser, "Contradiction and Overdetermination: Notes for an Investigation"
(1962) Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes toward an Investigation)" (1969) |
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| Feb. 13: | Raymond
Williams, "Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory"
(1973) Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (1977): section II, "Cultural Theory" Stuart Hall, "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms" (1980) Stuart Hall, "Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates " (1985) |
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| Feb. 15: | Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror of Production (1975) | |
| Feb. 20: | Linda Hutcheon, The Politics of Postmodernism (1989) | |
| Feb. 22: | Fredric
Jameson, "Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture" (1979) Fredric Jameson, "On 'Cultural Studies'" (1993) Paper #1 due |
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| Feb. 27: | Richard
Dyer, Stars (1979) Jennifer Wicke, "Celebrity Material: Materialist Feminism and the Culture of Celebrity" (1994) |
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| Mar. 1: | Jennie
Livingston, Paris Is Burning (1991) Phillip Brian Harper, "'The Subversive Edge': Paris Is Burning, Social Critique, and the Limits of Subjective Agency" (1994) |
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| Mar. 6: | bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (1996) | |
| Mar. 8: |
hooks, Reel to Real |
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| Mar. 13-15: | No class: spring break | |
| Mar. 20: |
Theodor Adorno, "On
Popular Music" (1941) |
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| Mar. 22: | Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994) | |
| Mar. 27: | Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds., Media Spectacles (1993) | |
| Mar. 29: | Garber,
Matlock, and Walkowitz, eds., Media Spectacles Annotated bibliography due |
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| April 3: | Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky Lacour, eds., Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case (1997) | |
| April 5: | Morrison and Lacour, eds., Birth of a Nation'hood | |
| April 10: | Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (1984) | |
| April 12: | Radway,
Reading the Romance Term paper draft to peer reviewer |
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| April 17: |
Andrew Ross, No
Respect, Intellectuals and Popular Culture (1989) |
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| April 19: | Antonio
Gramsci, "The Intellectuals" (1929-1935, 1949) Pierre Bourdieu, "The Forms of Capital" (1983) Cornel West, "Minority Discourse and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation" (1987) |
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| April 24: | John Guillory, Cultural Capital (1993) | |
| April 26: | Guillory,
Cultural Capital Term paper due |
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| May 1: | Concluding thoughts |