GNEL628
The Culture Industry
David Phillips • Tuesday, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Course Calendar | |
NOTE: This syllabus is subject to change |
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January 27 | Introduction and Overview |
February 3 | Printing and the People
* Michael Denning, Mechanic Accents, pp. 1-84 * Raymond Williams, "Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory," in Rethinking Popular Culture, pp. 407-423 |
February 10 | *Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature |
February 17 | Labor and Leisure
* Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920, pp. 1-90 *Lawrence Levine, "William Shakespeare and the American People," in Rethinking Popular Culture, pp. 157-197 |
February 24 | * Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York, pp. 3-138
*Rosalind Williams, "The Dream World of Mass Consumption," in Rethinking Popular Culture, pp. 198-235 |
March 2 | * Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will, pp. 127-152, 171-228
* Kathy Peiss, Cheap AmusementsI, pp. 139-188 |
March 9-16 | Spring Break |
March 23 | The Voice of America
*Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934, pp. 1-92 * To be announced |
March 30 | *Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio, pp. 93-168
* To be announced |
April 6 | TV Nation
* David Marc, Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture, pp. xi-98 * Mary Douglas, "Jokes," in Rethinking Popular Culture, pp. 291-310 |
April 13 | * David Marc, Demographic Vistas, pp. 99-189
* Todd Gitlin, "Movies of the Week," in Rethinking Popular Culture, pp. 335-356 |
April 20 | You Are Where You Live
* Michael Weiss, The Clustered World: How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All Means about Who We Are, pp.3-100, [browse 160-308] *Marshall Sahlins, "La Pensée Bourgeoise: Western Society as Culture," in Rethinking Popular Culture, pp. 278-290 |
April 27 | Conclusions and Summary |