COURSE SCHEDULE:
Week 1:
Intro to Theory
Chp. 1 & 10 (KT) + Adventures in Media and Cultural Studies (KW)
+ Carey
Week 2&3:
Medium and Message
Chp. 3 (KT) + McLuhan, Benjamin, Berger
RMT Chp. 6&13
Week 4-6:
Culture, Ideology and Hegemony
Chp. 7 (KT) + Marx&Engels; Gramsci; Williams; Horkheimer&Adorno; Althusser (KW)
+ Debord + Enzensberger
RMT Chp. 10, 11, 8, 9, 12, 16
Week 6-8:
Cultural Studies, Semiotics, Signification & Structuralism
Chp. 4 (KT) + Barthes, Hall, Hebdige (KW) + Eco + Barthes + Todorov
RMT Chp. 18, 10, 20, 24
Week 8&9:
The Postmodern Turn
Chp. 8 (KT) + Jameson, Baudrillard, Poster, McRobbie (KW) + Foucault
RMT Chp. 21
Week 10:
Accelerate Theory!
Deleuze & Guattari; Srnicek & Williams + Shaviro + Noys
Week 11:
The Postcolonial Matrix
Chp. 7 (KT) + Gilroy, Appadurai, Garcia Canclini, Barbero, Pieterse (KW) + Said
Week 12&13:
‘Difference’, Gender + Poaching and Everyday Life
Chp. 9 (KT); Dyer, hooks, De Certeau, Fiske
Week 14:
Media Studies 2.0
Gauntlett, Couldry