marxism

Academy of Leisure Studies
Ian Buchahan (U. Tasmania), "Deleuze and Pop Music" (1997) (Australian Humanities Review)
Karen Burns, "Zones of Theory and Amusement: Video Arcades and Luna Park" (1996) (Globe E-Journal)
Bibliography: Consumer Culture and Leisure (Don Slater, U. London)
Consumer Culture Research Site (Don Slater, Goldsmiths C., U. London)
Digital Nostalgia (a "high-tech memory lane" of now antique computer games) (Marc Sakey)
Fashion (from the view of Baudrillard, Marx, Freud) (part of U. Florida Fetish project)
Joanne Finkelstein (Monash U.), "Chic Theory" (1997) (on the idea and practice of fashion) (Australian Humanities Review)

Response Essays:
Ruth Barcan (U. Western Sydney), Response (1997)
Jennifer Craik (Griffith U.), "Chic to Chic" (1997)

H-PCAACA Discussion Group
Stuart Hall (see above)
Henry A. Giroux (Pennsylvania State U.)

Gerhard Jaritz (Krems an der Donau/Budapest), "Everyday Life in the Middle Ages and Digital Image Analysis" ("research into the history of everyday life and of material culture have been starting to concentrate on the analysis of [patterns of] messages borne by images") (CHart)
Josh Kun, "Reading, Writing, & Rap: Literacy as Rap Sound System" (1994) (Bad Subjects)
Tony Lack, "Consumer Society and Authenticity: The (Il)logic of Punk Practices" (Undercurrent)
The McDonaldization of Society (brief digest of the "MacDonaldization" thesis for a course page) (Robert O. Keel, U. Missouri, St. Louis)
Manchester Institute for Popular Culture Website (Manchester Metropolitan U.)
Chris MacNeil, "The Paradox of Liberalism versus Illiberalism: The British Middle Class Portrayed in 1980s Popular Culture" (1994)(Undercurrent)
Robin Markowitz, "Canonizing the Popular"
Hugh Miller (Nottingham Trent U., UK), "The Social Psychology of Objects" (1995)
Placing (a series of product "epiphanies" demonstrating the thesis that contemporary "placing" [product placements in movies, TV shows, and sporting events] "captures the essence of a new kind of selfhood for the '90s. No longer do people attempt to define themselves through the products they consume, best exemplified by the wanton excess and spectacle of the last decade. Instead, people define themselves in relation to the products that are ever-present in their everyday lives - they make meaning and significance of the multiple interdependences between themselves, others, and name-brand products. . . . Branding is corporate; placing is populist and personal") (Carl Steadman)
Steve Mizrach, "Iterative Discourse and the Formation of New Subcultures" (essay using subcultural studies approach to discuss "hackers," "techno/ravers," and "modern primitives")
Pop Culture (Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
Popular Culture Dept., Bowling Green State U. | Research Resources in Popular Culture Studies
Postmodern Culture: Pop-Cult Columns (Note: as of 1997 this online journal [including most back issues] is issued through the Johns Hopkins U. Press "Project Muse"; it is now accessible only to users at subscribing institutions)
Retro: The Magazine of Classic 20th Century Popular Culture (motto: "anything that was ever cool")
Steven Shaviro (U. Washington), Doom Patrols ("theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture"; full text of book)
Kim Stone (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Of Patented Ladybugs and Beneficial Nematodes: The Organic Garden as Foucauldian Heterotopia" (1997) (Thresholds)
Thomas Swiss (Drake U.),Youth Music and Culture (course)

Undercurrent: An Online Journal for the Analysis of the Present

COURSES & PROGRAMS

General Course & Program Resources

Cultural Studies Academic Courses & Programs (Sarah Zupko)
Sociology Courses (SocioSite / Albert Benschop)

Courses

Carl Cuneo (McMaster U.), Trade Unions and Gender
Timothy Dugale (U. Windsor), Popular Culture
Al Filreis (U. Penn), The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s (includes many online resources)
Cindy Fuchs (George Mason U.)

Black Popular Cultures
50ft Queenies ("course examines current gendered and sexed identities as they are produced, resisted, and negotiated through and as popular media imagery, primarily in the U.S.")
Rock and Rap
Tabloid Culture

Lytle Givens (Union U., Tennessee), History of Social Thought
Earl Jackson, Jr. (U. California, Santa Cruz), "Fantasy Campus" (Courses in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies)
Barbara Harlow, Bret Benjamin, Mary Harvan (U. Texas, Austin), Literary Contexts and Contests ("Through active--and activist--readings of these texts, and participatory writing, our own project will be to investigate the cultural arguments that literary works can instigate and the conflicts that they just as often resolve and/or exacerbate"; course is designed around texts by five authors: Swift, M. Shelley, Conrad, Achebe, Kureishi; includes timelines for: Literary Genres, Population and Development, Race and Ethnicity, and Geographies of Contest
Crystal Kile (Bowling Green State U.), Television as Popular Culture
Peter Kollock, Marc Smith (UCLA), The Sociology of Cyberspace
Rita Raley (U. Minnesota), "Third World / Postcolonial Literary Studies"
Seminar on the Sociology of Knowledge (Wesleyan U.)

The Sociology of Cyberspace