[This schedule is tentative; changes may be necessary.  Readings listed under "Further Readings" are available in Storey or on Reserve under the name "Cultural Studies Notebook."  They are intended to supplement the primary course readings and provide you with additional resource materials.]

9/07   Introduction: What is Cultural Studies? Better yet, What is Culture?

Further Reading:
Storey, "Introduction: The Study of Popular Culture and Cultural Studies," Storey, x-xviii
Williams, "The Analysis of Culture," Storey, 48-56
---, "Moving from High Culture to Ordinary Culture"
Nelson, "Always Already Cultural Studies: Academic Conferences and a Manifesto" (Reserve)
Hall, "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms" (Reserve)
Felski, “Those Who Disdain Cultural Studies Don’t Know What They’re Talking About” (Reserve)
Shiac, "Feminism and Popular Culture," Storey, 333-341
Giroux, "Doing Cultural Studies:  Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy"
Allen, "Cultural Studies in the Undergraduate Program: Pedagogical Renaissance or Curriculum Lite?"

Arnold, "Culture and Anarchy," Storey, 7-12
Macdonald, "A Theory of Mass Culture," Storey, 22-36
Adorno, "On Popular Music," Storey, 197-209

Further Reading:
Arnold, "High Culture"
Adorno and Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"  (Reserve)
Adorno, "The Culture Industry Reconsidered"
Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (Reserve)
Adorno Bibliography

Barthes, "Myth Today," Storey, 109-118
Hall, "The Determinations of News Photographs" (Cpk)
Butler, "Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia" (Cpk)

Further Reading:
See Barthes's essays in  Mythologies

Confused?  Try Semiotics for Beginners.  You might also want to read about Barthes' debt to Claude Levi-Strauss and Ferdinand de Saussure

Still feel like venting?  Try alt.Rodney-King

For sources on whiteness as a racial category, see Richard Dyer's "White" (Reserve) or compare Race Traitor and the Center for the Study of White American Culture

            Bourdieu, "Artistic Taste and Cultural Capital" (Cpk)
            Berger, Ways of Seeing, Chapter 1

            Further Reading:
            Bourdieu, "Distinction" and "The Aristocracy of Culture," Storey, 314-454
            Bourdieu, "The Sense of Distinction"
            Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (Reserve)
            More Links to Bourdieu Sites
 

10/05   Ideology and the Image: Art and Art History Berger, Ways of Seeing, Chap. 2-7 Marx and Engels, "Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas" and "Base and Superstructure," Storey, 191-193  Further Reading: Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (Reserve) See also the Marx pages at Public Sphere and the Marx and Engles Archive as well as the Walter Benjamin Site and the The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate

10/12   From Ideology to Hegemony: The Birmingham School

Hebdige, “From Culture to Hegemony,” Subculture, Chap. 1
Bennett, "Popular Culture and the Turn to Gramsci," Storey, 217-224
Hall, "Notes on Deconstructing the Popular," Storey, 442-453

Further Reading:
Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," Storey, 153-164.
Gramsci , "Hegemony, Intellectuals, and the State," Storey, 210-216.
Hall, "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms" (Reserve)
Schulman, "Conditions of Their Own Making: An Intellectual History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies"
It might be helpful to take a brief tour through Althusser and Foucault
Paper #1 Due in class or electronically by 4:00, Friday, 10/6

10/19    Resistance Culture: Subcultures Hebdige, Subculture, As much as possible, but especially chapters 5-9 Further Reading: McRobbie, "Settling Accounts with Subculture" (Reserve)  Willis, "Hardcore: Subculture American Style" (Reserve)  Clarke, et al. "Subcultures, Cultures and Class" (Reserve)  Kleinhans, "Cultural Appropriation and Subcultural Expression"

Fiske, "Shopping for Pleasure" (Cpk)
Penley, "Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics, and Technology (Cpk)

Further Reading:
de Certeau, "The Practice of Everyday Life," Storey, 483-494
Jenkins, "Television Fans, Poachers, Nomads" (Reserve)
Fiske, "TV: Re-situating the Popular in the People"
Hooks, "Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister?"
Jim McGuigan, "Trajectories of Cultural Populism," Storey, 587-599 (a critique of Fiske)
Morris, "Banality in Cultural Studies" (anothe critique) (Reserve)
 

Barthes, "Toys" (Cpk) and in Mythologies
Willis, "Gender as Commodity" (Cpk)

Further Reading:
Kuenz, "Playtime: Toys and the Labor of Childhood"

11/09     Women's Genres: Soaps and Romance

Radway, "The Act of Reading the Romance" (Cpk)
Modleski, "The Disappearing Act: Harlequin Romances" (Cpk)

Further Reading:
Shiac, “Feminism and Popular Culture,” Storey, 333- 341
Ang, "Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure," Storey 522-531 (a critique of Radway)
Ultimate Internet Romance Book Site and the Soap Opera Fan Site
Helena Robson, "Why Are Soap Operas so Popular?"
Paper #2 due in class or electronically by 4:00, Friday, 11/10

Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (Cpk)
Bobo, "The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers," Storey, 310-318
Gledhill, "Pleasurable Negotiations," Storey, 236-249

Further Reading:
Feminist Film Theory
Feminist Film Reviews

11/30   Postmodernism and Television

Jean Baudrillard, "The Procession of Simulacra," Storey, 350-357
Creed, "From Here to Modernity:  Feminism and Postmodernism," Storey, 358-364
Collins, "Postmodernism and Television" (Reserve)

Further Reading:
Kroker and Cook, "Television and the Triumph of Culture" (Reserve)
Jameson,  "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" (Reserve)
Adam Katz, "Postmodernism and Cultural Studies: A Critique"
Project Baudrillard

Some Film History for Understanding Independence Day

12/07    Screening of Independence Day

12/14    History and Ideology in Independence Day

Rogin, Independence Day

Further Reading:
Jameson, "Nostalgia for the Present" (Reserve)
---, "Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture" (Reserve)
Reviews of Independence Day