cultural_studies

Cultural Studies

Practice:

Texts

Student Work

Bibliographies

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, 1908 or 1911 Osterreichische Galerie, Vienna

The following notes were made for the course Cututral Studies: From Romantic Poetry to Taipei Streets (Fall, 1997)

I. Concepts & examples: interrelationships among the following categories, taken from Culture, Media and Identities series (London: Sage, 1997), are best shown in the "circuit of culture."

"circuit of culture" from Culture, Media, Identities Series

Concepts	Examples
0. What is Culture? What is Cultural Studies? What is Culture? What is Cultural Studies? (1); (2)
I. Production & Regulation Marxist theories of production, regulation and ideology Althusser "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" Gramsci "Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State" Pierre Bourdieu "The Field of Cultural Production."	Romantic quest narratives poems from Lyrical Ballads and its preface "The Eve of St. Agnes"; "Ode to Psyche" "Lady of Shallot"
II. Culture Industry high art vs. popular culture: Culture industry Adorno & Horkheimer "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"	Frankenstein Contemporary Publishing Business
III. Representation semiotics "Encoding, Decoding" discourse/power (Foucault) John Berger's Ways of Seeing (& psychoanalytic feminism)	Romantic Passion Pre-Raphaelite Women in paintings D. G. Rossetti's painting and poetry Christina Rossetti "Goblin Market" and other poems
IV. Consumption Consumption Introd. Frith "Why do songs have words?" Massification or Appropriation de Certeau "The Practice of Everyday Life"	music video, commercials, & ads
V. Cultural Imperialism & Globalization globalization as cultural imperialism?	Taiwanese poets (e.g.§E¥ú¤¤), campus folk songs and (im)migration
VI. Representation and Identity Theories of identity & identity and representation "Identity and Cultural Studies: Is That All There Is?" "The Body and Difference" "The Body, Health and Eating Disorders"