today's topic: final presentations and conclusion

Day 4 of final presentations.

Any last questions?

today's topic: final presentations 3

Day 3 of final presentations.

today's topic: final presentations 2

Day 2 of final presentations

today's topic: final presentations 1

Day 1 of final presentations.

today's topic: midterm 2

today's topic: subcultures, poaching, and jamming 4

Lewis and Jhally, "The Struggle over Media Literacy" (reader)

today's topic: subcultures, poaching, and jamming 3

Wilson, "Jamming Big Brother" (reader)

today's topic: subcultures, poaching, and jamming 2

Jenkins, "'In My Weekend-Only World...': Reconsidering Fandom" (reader)
Klein, "Culture Jamming" (reader)

today's topic: screening 5

24 Hour Party People (2002, Michael Winterbottom, 117m)

today's topic: subcultures, poaching, and jamming 1

Hebdige, "(i) From Culture to Hegemony; (ii) Subculture: The Unnatural Break"

today's topic: postmodernism 3

Poster, "Postmodern Virtualities"

today's topic: postmodernism 2

Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra"
Collins, "Television and Postmodernism" (reader)

today's topic: postmodernism 1

Jameson, "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"

today's topic: consumer culture 2

Willis, "Unwrapping Use Value"
RESPONSE 3 DUE

today's topic: consumer culture 1

Storey, "The Consumption of Everyday Life" (reader)
Williams, "Advertising, The Magic System" (reader)

today's topic: screening 4

The Celluloid Closet (1995, Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, 102m)

today's topic: gender, race, and sexuality 3

Gross, "Out of the Mainstream: Sexual Minorities and the Mass Media"

today's topic: gender, race, and sexuality 2

Gray, "The Politics of Representation in Network Television"
Dyer, "White"

today's topic: screening 3

Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock, 129m)

today's topic: midterm 1

In-class exam, from the beginning through Mulvey and hooks.

today's topic: gender, race, and sexuality 1

Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
hooks, "Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance"

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)

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)

today's topic: screening 2

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004, Robert Greenwald, 77m)

today's topic: public sphere/political economy 3

today's topic: public sphere/political economy 2

Herman & Chomsky, "A Propaganda Model"

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"

today's topic: mass media and society 3

Gans, "The Critique of Mass Culture" (reader)

today's topic: screening 1

Blowup (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni, 111m)

today's topic: mass media and society 2

Horkheimer & Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"
RESPONSE 1 DUE

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"

today's topic: media and representation 2

Williamson, from Decoding Advertisements (reader)
Stuart Hall: Representation and the Media (in-class video)

today's topic: media and representation 1

Brummett, "Rhetoric and Popular Culture" (reader)
Kellner, "Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture"

today's topic: introduction

How will this class function? Who are the people in it? And -- most importantly -- why study the media?