4 May 2005
2 May 2005
27 April 2005
25 April 2005
20 April 2005
18 April 2005
today's topic: subcultures, poaching, and jamming 4
Lewis and Jhally, "The Struggle over Media Literacy" (reader)
13 April 2005
11 April 2005
today's topic: subcultures, poaching, and jamming 2
Jenkins, "'In My Weekend-Only World...': Reconsidering Fandom" (reader)
Klein, "Culture Jamming" (reader)
8 April 2005
6 April 2005
today's topic: subcultures, poaching, and jamming 1
Hebdige, "(i) From Culture to Hegemony; (ii) Subculture: The Unnatural Break"
4 April 2005
30 March 2005
today's topic: postmodernism 2
Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra"
Collins, "Television and Postmodernism" (reader)
28 March 2005
23 March 2005
21 March 2005
today's topic: consumer culture 1
Storey, "The Consumption of Everyday Life" (reader)
Williams, "Advertising, The Magic System" (reader)
11 March 2005
9 March 2005
today's topic: gender, race, and sexuality 3
Gross, "Out of the Mainstream: Sexual Minorities and the Mass Media"
7 March 2005
today's topic: gender, race, and sexuality 2
Gray, "The Politics of Representation in Network Television"
Dyer, "White"
4 March 2005
2 March 2005
28 February 2005
today's topic: gender, race, and sexuality 1
Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
hooks, "Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance"
23 February 2005
today's topic: critical cultural studies 2
Fiske, "Intertextuality" and "Pleasure and Play" (reader)
D'Acci, "Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey" (reader)
21 February 2005
today's topic: critical cultural studies 1
Brummett, "Rhetorical Methods in Critical Studies" (reader)
Brummett, "Varieties of Rhetorical Criticism" (reader)
Kellner, "Beavis and Butt-head: No Future for Post-Modern Youth" (reader)
18 February 2005
today's topic: screening 2
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004, Robert Greenwald, 77m)
16 February 2005
today's topic: public sphere/political economy 3
Bagdikian, "The Lords of the Global Village" (reader) Steinem, "Sex, Lies, and Advertising" (reader) RESPONSE 2 DUE14 February 2005
9 February 2005
today's topic: public sphere/political economy 1
Sturken and Cartwright, "The Mass Media and the Public Sphere" (reader)
Habermas, "The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article"
7 February 2005
4 February 2005
2 February 2005
today's topic: mass media and society 2
Horkheimer & Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"
RESPONSE 1 DUE
31 January 2005
today's topic: mass media and society 1
Sturken and Cartwright, "Reproduction and Visual Technologies" (reader)
Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
26 January 2005
today's topic: media and representation 2
Williamson, from Decoding Advertisements (reader)
Stuart Hall: Representation and the Media (in-class video)
24 January 2005
today's topic: media and representation 1
Brummett, "Rhetoric and Popular Culture" (reader)
Kellner, "Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture"