Maine, USM 244

Excerpt: ... Introduction: What is Cultural Studies ? Better yet, What is Culture? Further Reading: Arnold, "High Culture" Williams, "The Analysis of Culture" (Reserve); "Moving from High Culture to Ordinary Culture" Felski, "Those Who Disdain Cultural Studies Don't Know What They're Talking About" (Reserve) Nelson, "Always Already Cultural Studies " (Reserve) Hall, " Cultural Studies : Two Paradigms" (Reserve) Henry Giroux, "Doing Cultural Studies : Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy" Morris, "The Banality of Cultural Studies " (Reserve) ...

Allan Hancock College, MCS 100

Excerpt: ... Abstract Purpose of Media and Cultural Studies In light of the recent negative public portrayals of media and cultural studies as academic disciplines, an analysis of what the disciplines are good for is in order. Media and Cultural Studies are extremely integral disciplines, helping us to understand the way that contemporary global, national and popular culture work, playing large roles in the way that we understand human lives. The emergence of a media culture which "help[s] produce the fabric of everyday life" (Kellner 1995:1), indicates that the study of media and cultural studies is beneficial, as it applies to contemporary culture and society in a way that psychology and sociology do not. While the supposed triviality of studying Eastenders or Finding Nemo has been greatly criticised, the truth that "media culture also provides the materials out of which many people construct their sense of class, of ethnicity and race, of nationality, of sexuality, of 'us' and 'them'" clearly challenges this criticism, ...

N. Colorado, HUM 120

Excerpt: ... John Fiske, " Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life" 154: Hard to study everyday life Cultural distance Distance from history and body No distance in culture of everyday life 155: Social experience and cultural material Lived-difficult to study in academic fashion John Fiske, " Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life" 155: Social space-mutually informing space Bodies/cultures Social/individual High art/Low art High culture/Low culture Various arts and cultures John Fiske, " Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life" 156: Television enters and represents textures of everyday life 157: Need for texture in TV-creates illusion of "everyday life" Oppressed take signs of oppression and use for political purposes 158: Popular creative as concretely contextual John Fiske, " Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life" 159: Academic de-valuing of mundane culture 160: Practices of everyday life construct identities of difference 161: Wants ...

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, ANTH 373

Excerpt: ... Course Schedule - Spring 2007 Psychology 373 Culture & Psychology Credit: 3 hours. Centers on cross-cultural study of substantive areas such as personality, motivation, socialization, interpersonal behavior, psychological environments, cognition and ...

Washington, ENGL 355

Excerpt: ... English 355, summer 2008 Cultural Studies , (Post)Colonialism, & Lucy Historical & Critical Contexts for July 16-23 Discussions NOTE: As you read, remember that: Kincaid is an Antiguan (now living in the U.S.) who has written extensively about the impacts of British colonialism on her home island and culture. The scene with Lucy and the daffodils (pp. 17-18, 29-30) is a direct reference to Wordsworth's "Daffodils" poems. William Wordsworth is a famous British poet associated with Romanticism. We'll discuss his poem and treatise for romantic poetry (partly found in the short excerpt "Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity") in class. Huxley's essay is intended to help you think about Lucy's reaction to the daffodils (why the "importation" of Wordsworth's poem, and British culture more broadly, to Antigua) is so problematic for her. Consider also the following contexts for the novel: I. Colonialism / Postcolonialism in the Americas: Historical Contexts 1492 Columbus lands in the Americas 15th 19th centurie ...

Penn State, COMM 411

Excerpt: ... Caitlin Lovey Mark Steensland Comm 411 October 22, 2007 Chapter 9 Outline A. A Paradigm Crisis in Cultural Studies ? 1. Jim McGuigan defines cultural populism as `the intellectual assumption, made by some students of popular culture, that the symbolic experiences, and practices of ordinary people are more important analytically and politically than Culture with a capital C' 2. Nicholas Garnham states that `the project of cultural studies can only be successfully pursued if the bridge with political economy is rebuilt' 3. Consumption in cultural studies has vastly overestimated the power of consumers, by failing to keep in view the `determining' role production plays in limiting the possibilities of consumption 4. Cultural studies is accused of failing to situate consumption within the `determining' conditions of production 5. There are no longer absolutist criteria of judgment. What is good and what is bad is now open to dispute. B. The Cultural Field 1. John Fiske is said to continually sacrifice economic ...

W. Alabama, SOC 101

Excerpt: ... The Role of Culture in Social Theory Orthodox Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories Cultural Functionalist Symbolic Interactionist and Dramaturgical Perspectives Cultural Studies Tradition Production of Culture Perspective Conflict, Integration, Origin, and Autonomy ...

N. Colorado, ENG 250

Excerpt: ... Feminism Political Movement Cultural Movement Social Movement Intellectual Movement Tremendous influence on content and methodology of Cultural Studies Exposes obnoxiously male lineage of cultural studies Hannah Hch, The Bride (1927) Feminism Cultural representation of female Cultural commodification of female Cultural oppression of female Cultural pleasures of female Cultural (re)productions of female Conditions that produce and reproduce culture Max Ernst, The Tottering Woman (1923) Lana F. Rakow, "Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due" 275: Most popular culture debates exclude women Considers 4 different approaches Assumed canon of male cultural studies thinkers Female theorists overshadowed and excluded How to think about women in culture of patriarchy Lana F. Rakow, "Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due" 2 assumptions of feminist popular culture theorists Women have particular relati ...

UCSB, MUS 114

Excerpt: ... Music 114 Reading Summaries 1. "Constructing the Popular: Cultural Production and Consumption." In this article, the authors gave a general introduction to the origins of pop culture research. Pop culture typically has four meanings: objects or practices that are well-liked by a lot of people, a reference to objects or practices deemed inferior and unworthy, to work deliberately setting out to win favor with the people, or objects and practices that actually are made by the people for themselves. The study of pop culture today is typically categorized into three predominant schools of thoughts: Cultural Studies , Production of Culture, and Popular Culture Studies tradition. In Cultural Studies , pop culture is the culture of the subordinated as they actively resist their own subordination. The Production of Culture perspective focuses less attention of the various meanings of cultural texts and the process of cultural consumption than on an examination of culture as a manufactured product. Last but not least, ...

UCSD, MMW 2

Excerpt: ... MMW2 Writing Assignment Sequence Summer 2008 8% PAPER #1 Submit a paper that answers a question posed in a prompt provided by the Writing Program. The question will be based on one of the texts assigned for the course. Your answer, which ...

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, COMM 575

Excerpt: ... Course Schedule - Spring 2007 Communications 575 Cult Studies and Crit Interp Credit: 4 hours. Explores the history, applications and limitations of various theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of contemporary culture and popular media. Examines debates and issues within cultural studies and with other schools of thought. The impact of cultural studies across the disciplines. Same as EPS 575. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. CRN 31462 Type lecturediscussion Section G Time 11:00 AM - 12:50 PM Days MW Location room 393 Bevier Hall Instructor McCarthy, C Page 1 - Communications, Spring 2007 ...

Kansas, SPAN 300

Excerpt: ... SPAN 300 Intro. to Mexican Cultural Studies Instructor: Prof. Danny J. Anderson Date/Time: Tuesday 7:10 to 10:00 p.m. Lawrence CampusWescoe 1046; Course # 43574 Edwards CampusRegents Center 128; Course # 44146 SPAN 300 Introduction to Mexican Cultural Studies (Origins and Development of Spanish American Culture) The United States shares a 2,000 mile border with Mexico. Economic agreements push toward the integration of the Mexican, Canadian, and United States economies, while immigration reform seeks to construct a wall that will ensure a clear division between the United States and Mexico. Throughout the Midwest, along the AtchisonTopeka-Santa Fe railway line there are communities established by earlier waves of immigrant workers from Mexico and in Kansas City, every September 16 in Kansas City, there is a major public celebration of Mexicos independence from Spain. This course is designed to create a background that will allow students in the United States to understand the complex background that ...