Předmět Popular Culture (JJM117)

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Sylabus

Popular Culture and Media Theory I: Modernist ApproachesFaculty of Social SciencesCharles UniversitySyllabusWinter, 2011 Ted Turnau, Ph.D.tel: 2-3535-9039 or 774-3535-91; e-mail: turnau@ilivein.eu Course Description: How many movies have you seen in the last 12 months?  How many commercials have you seen on TV? How many songs have you heard on the radio, or in a club? How many magazines have you read?  Why? Because these sorts of things form the world we live in, make our environment.  We humans enjoy making meanings and sharing them with others.  And these meanings have a lot of power to influence us, sometimes in ways we don’t even notice.  What is the best way to understand popular culture and the media?  This course will introduce you to several thinkers - some philosophers, some sociologists (at least two), some political theorists, some linguists, and others - who have thought long and hard about the media and popular culture.  They have different answers about what is culture and media, how do they make meaning, what is the best ways to interpret their messages?  And what do these theories tell us about what it means to be human, what is really real?  If these kinds of questions interest you, and you would like know more about the media and popular culture and what it all means, then this course is for you.  In this course, we shall focus upon theories of popular culture and media that characterize modernity, from the 19th century up to the structuralist and Marxist theories of the 1950s and 60s. Requirements:   AttendanceThis course depends upon class discussion.  Therefore, I expect my students to be in class.  Absences will affect your grade (10% of your grade will be based on class participation). Homework QuestionnairesFor each lecture topic, I will give you a reading and a homework questionnaire.  These need to be done before we get to that lecture topic so that you will be prepared for class discussion.  These will be worth 10% of your grade, but I will grade them only on completion, not correctness.  In other words, I won’t give you a bad grade for wrong answers.  I will give you a bad grade if you don’t do the questions.  Paper I will require one short paper in which you will choose two theorists from different schools of thought and compare and contrast them (or some part of their theories).  You will need to: (1) describe the theories; (2) critically compare them (tell me what you like and don’t like, and why); and (3) apply the theory you like best to a specific example drawn from popular culture or media from your native country (or whatever you feel most comfortable with).  It should be 7-10 pages, double-spaced, typed.  If you use outside sources (even the readings from class), I will expect you to footnote each quote.  Plagiarism will not be tolerated (see plagiarism sheet).  If you complete the paper early, I would be happy to read it, make comments, and let you improve it before you had it back to be graded.  The paper will be worth 40% of your final grade. Final ExamThere will be a written final exam that will cover the whole semester.  You will be asked to identify key terms and also write two or three short essays (perhaps applying a certain theory to a piece of popular culture). The final will be worth 40% of your final grade.  Extra-CreditFor those of you who would like to do something for extra-credit, you may do a 2-3 page paper where you lay out your own answers to key questions like, "What is media and popular culture?" "Who are humans as culture-makers and media-consumers?" "How should we best interpret popular culture and media?"  In other words, I want you to give a brief synopsis of your own theory of popular culture and media.  Please note that this will help your grade. It will not give you more credits. Schedule of Lecture Topics: Semester 1

Literatura

This is a list of good collections of primary sources and some secondary sources that you might want to track down if you would like to study further.  The articles you read were taken from some of these books (though not all of them). If it looks like too much to sort through, allow me to suggest a few good places to start: Storey’s Introductory Guide would be a good place to start for popular culture theory, though it may be out of print.  He covers a lot of the same ground in his later Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture, though he organizes it around different genres of popular culture instead of around different theoretical schools.  Burton’s book is a good primer on media studies.  And the introductary sections of each of these big readers contain good overviews of the field of popular culture and media theory.  Another good place to start would be at www.popcultures.com, especially the "theorists and critics" link.  It’s not complete, but it is a very good resource for popular culture theory, with lots of links to more specific sites. Alexander, Jeffery C. and Steven Seidman. Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990Burton, Graeme. More than Meets the Eye: An Introduction to Media Studies. 3d edition. London: Arnold, 2002Cashmore, Ellis and Chris Rojek, eds. Dictionary of Cultural Theorists. London: Arnold, 1999.Dirks, Nicholas B., Geoff Eley and Sherry B. Ortner, eds. Culture/Power/History:  A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.Durham, Meenakshi Gigi and Douglas M. Keller, eds.  Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2001.During, Simon, ed.  The Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1993.Gray, Ann and Jim McGuigan, eds. Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader. 2d ed. London: Arnold, 1997.Jenks, Chris. Culture: Key Ideas. London: Routledge, 1993.Kearney, Richard, and Mara Rainwater, eds. The Continental Philosophy Reader. London: Routledge, 1996.MacKay, Hugh and Tim O’Sullivan, eds. The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation. London: Sage, 1999.Marris, Paul and Sue Thornham, eds. Media Studies: A Reader. 2d ed. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 2000.Mukerji, Chandra, and Michael Schudson, eds. Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.Romanowski, William D. Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in American Life. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996.Storey, John. An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1993._               , ed. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. Hertfordshire, UK: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.                 , ed. What is Cultural Studies: A Reader. London: Arnold, 1996__________, Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture: Theories and  Methods. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996.Surber, Jere Paul. Culture and Critique: An Introduction to the Critical Discourses of Cultural Studies. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.

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Requirements:   AttendanceThis course depends upon class discussion.  Therefore, I expect my students to be in class.  Absences will affect your grade (10% of your grade will be based on class participation). Homework QuestionnairesFor each lecture topic, I will give you a reading and a homework questionnaire.  These need to be done before we get to that lecture topic so that you will be prepared for class discussion.  These will be worth 10% of your grade, but I will grade them only on completion, not correctness.  In other words, I won’t give you a bad grade for wrong answers.  I will give you a bad grade if you don’t do the questions.  Paper I will require one short paper in which you will choose two theorists from different schools of thought and compare and contrast them (or some part of their theories).  You will need to: (1) describe the theories; (2) critically compare them (tell me what you like and don’t like, and why); and (3) apply the theory you like best to a specific example drawn from popular culture or media from your native country (or whatever you feel most comfortable with).  It should be 7-10 pages, double-spaced, typed.  If you use outside sources (even the readings from class), I will expect you to footnote each quote.  Plagiarism will not be tolerated (see plagiarism sheet).  If you complete the paper early, I would be happy to read it, make comments, and let you improve it before you had it back to be graded.  The paper will be worth 40% of your final grade. Final ExamThere will be a written final exam that will cover the whole semester.  You will be asked to identify key terms and also write two or three short essays (perhaps applying a certain theory to a piece of popular culture). The final will be worth 40% of your final grade.  Extra-CreditFor those of you who would like to do something for extra-credit, you may do a 2-3 page paper where you lay out your own answers to key questions like, "What is media and popular culture?" "Who are humans as culture-makers and media-consumers?" "How should we best interpret popular culture and media?"  In other words, I want you to give a brief synopsis of your own theory of popular culture and media.  Please note that this will help your grade. It will not give you more credits.

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