Schedule
| January 21: | Introduction | |
| January 23: | Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, "The
Communist Manifesto" (1848) John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972) |
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| January 28: |
Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994), chapter 1 | |
| January 30: | 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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| February 4: | Marx/Marx and Engels essays, part two | |
| February 6: | Georg Lukács, "Reification
and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Antonio Gramsci, selections from The Prison Notebooks (1929-35, 1949) |
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| February 11: | Walter Benjamin, "The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1939) Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (1944) |
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| February 13: | Louis Althusser, "Contradiction
and Overdetermination: Notes for an Investigation" (1962) Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)" (1969) |
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| February 18: | 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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| February 20: | Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror of Production (1975) | |
| February 25: | Linda Hutcheon, The Politics of Postmodernism (1989) | |
| February 27: | Fredric Jameson, "Reification
and Utopia in Mass Culture" (1979) Fredric Jameson, "On 'Cultural Studies' " (1993) Midterm paper due |
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| March 4: | Richard Dyer, Stars
(1979) Jennifer Wicke, "Celebrity Material: Materialist Feminism and the Culture of Celebrity" (1994) |
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| March 6: | 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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| March 11: | bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (1996) | |
| March 13: | hooks, Reel to Real | |
| March 18-20: | No class: spring break | |
| March 25: | Theodor Adorno, "On
Popular Music" (1941) Bernard Gendron, "Theodor Adorno Meets the Cadillacs" (1986) Term paper proposal due |
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| March 27: | Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994) | |
| April 1: | Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds., Media Spectacles (1993) | |
| April 3: | Garber, Matlock, and Walkowitz, eds., Media
Spectacles Annotated bibliography due |
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| April 8: | Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky Lacour, eds., Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case (1997) | |
| April 10: | Morrison and Lacour, eds, Birth of a Nation'hood | |
| April 15: | Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (1984) | |
| April 17: | Radway, Reading the Romance Term paper draft to peer reviewer |
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| April 22: | Andrew Ross, No Respect: Intellectuals
and Popular Culture (1989) Commented drafts due back to author |
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| April 24: | Antonio Gramsci, "The Intellectuals"
(1929-35, 1949) Pierre Bourdieu, "The Forms of Capital" (1983) Cornel West, "Minority Discourse and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation" (1987) |
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| April 29: | John Guillory, Cultural Capital (1993) | |
| May 1: | Guillory, Cultural Capital Term paper due |
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| May 6: | Concluding thoughts |