For 1/21:
• Matthew Arnold, excerpts from Culture and Anarchy in John Storey (ed.), Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader 2nd edition (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1998) pp. 7-12.
For 1/24:
• Kathryn Fox, "Real Punks and Pretenders: The Social Organization of Counterculture," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 16, No. 3, Oct. 1987, pp. 344-370.
II. Culture and Rituals
For 1/26
• Douglas E. Foley, "The Great American Football Ritual," from Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990, pp. 28-62.
• David Brooks, "Business Life" (on "Burlington, Vermont and other Latte Towns"), from Bobos in Paradise: the New Upper Class and How They Got There (Simon & Schuster: 2000), pp. 103-112.
For 1/28-2/4
• Clifford Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight," from The Interpretation of Cultures, 1973.
[2/7: RITUAL ANALYSIS DUE]
III. The Analysis of Form: Semiotics, Structuralism, and Ideology
For 2/7
• Semiotics and Media Web Site, http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/semiotics_and_ads/index.html
For 2/9
• David Graddol, THE SEMIOTIC CONSTRUCTION OF A WINE LABEL
For 2/11
• Will Wright, Ch. 3 and Ch. 4 from Sixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western (Univ. of California: 1975), pp. 29-129. (Focus on pp. 40-49, 59-72, 113-129.)
IV. Putting it all together
2/14-2/16
• Richard Johnson, "What is Cultural Studies Anyway?" Social Text, Winter 1986/87, pp. 38-80.
2/18 - 2/23
• Raymond Williams, "Culture" from Marxism and Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 11-20.
Recommended:
• Stuart Hall, “Two Paradigms in Cultural Studies”
V. Class and Culture
2/25
• E. P. Thompson, "Preface," from The Making of the English Working Class (Vintage: 1966), pp. 9-14.
For 2/28:
• Video, Media Education Foundation, "Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class" [on Feb. 28]
3/2
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu
• http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/cultural-capital/
Recommended:
• Pierre Bourdieu, “The Aristocracy of Culture,” in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, trans. Richard Nice(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), 11-96
For 3/4:
• Lawrence W. Levine, excerpts from Highbrow/Lowbrow: the emergence of cultural hierarchy in America, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988, pp. 13-23, 27-29, 30-33, 52-54, 56-81, 171-173, 176-184, 199, 221-225, 235-236. .
For 3/14:
• Roy Rosenzweig, "The Rise of the Saloon," in Mukerji and Schudson (eds.), Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) , pp. 121-156
For 3/18:
• E. P. Thompson, "Time, Work-discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," Past and Present, No. 38, 1967, pp. 56-97.
VI. Gender
For 3/21:
• Video: Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Rock Video (written & directed by Sut Jhally)
For 3/23:
• Thomas Streeter, Nicole Hintlian, Samantha Chipetz, and Susanna Callender, "A Web Essay on the Male Gaze, Fashion Advertising, and the Pose," http://www.uvm.edu/%7Etstreete/powerpose/
• John Berger, Chapter 3 of Ways of Seeing, New York: Penguin/BBC, 1972, pp. 45-64.
For 3/25:
• Excerpts from Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 1984: pp. 11-12, 86-118.
For 3/28:
• Rachel Bowlby, Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola, NY: Methuen, 1985, pp. 1-34.
VII. Race and Ethnicity
For 3/30:
• Video: Stuart Hall, "Race, the Floating Signifier"
For 4/1:
• Michael Omi, "In Living Color: Race and American Culture," in Ian Angus & Sut Jhally (eds.), Cultural Politics in Contemporary America, New York: Routledge, 1989, pp. 111-122
VIII. Consumer Culture
For 4/4:
• Sut Jhally, "Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture," The World & I, Vol. 5, No. 7, July 1990, pp. 506-519.
• Thorstein Veblen, excerpts regarding "Conspicuous Consumption," from The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, 1953 [1899].
For 4/6
• Susan G. Davis, "Shopping," in Richard Maxwell (ed.), Culture Works: the Political Economy of Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2001, pp. 163-196.
For 4/8:
• Colin Campbell, "Modern Autonomous Imaginative Hedonism," pp. 77-95, and "Conclusion," pp. 202-227, from The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism, Basil Blackwell, 1987.
IX. Culture and Social Theory
For 4/11:
• Anthony Giddens, "Conclusion," from New Rules of Sociological Method, (1st edition), pp. 155-161.
For 4/13 - 4/15:
• Ann Swidler, 1986. “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies.” American Sociological Review 51:273-286
For 4/18:
• T. J. Jackson-Lears, "The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities." The American Historical Review, 90:3, June 1985, pp. 567-593.
For 4/20, 4/22, 4/25, 4/27, [4/29: no class], 5/2, 5/4:
• Term paper presentations