TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Schedule is subject to change. Updated schedule will be available on Moodle
L: Lecture
R: Reading Assignment (due date)
CRR: Cultural Resistance Reader
S: Screening
Week One (January 16-22)
L: Intro to syllabus + Intro to Subcultures: Culture, Politics and Resistance
R: (CRR) Introduction + Raymond Williams’s “Culture” (due 01/18)
S: Scorpio Rising (1964) by Kenneth Anger (28 min)
Week Two (January 23-29)
L: Culture, Politics and Resistance 2
R: (CRR) Marx & Engels, from The German Ideology +Antonio Gramsci from The Prison Notebooks+ Walter Benjamin’s “Author as Producer”
Week Three (January 30-February 5)
Reading Response
L: The Politics of Resistance
R: (CRR) Mikhail Bakhtin, from Rabelais and his World +Kelley, from Race Rebels
L: Primitive Rebels
R: E.J. Hobsbawm from Primitive Rebels
S: Latinos Beyond Reels & Salvatore Giuliano (library holding) (excerpts)
Week Four (Feb. 6-12)
S: Stuart Hall’s Representation & the Media (excerpts from Part I, II & III) +discussion
R: Stuart Hall’s “Notes on Deconstructing the Popular”
Week Five (Feb. 13-19)
L: British Subcultures
R: John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson and Brian Roberts’s “Subcultures, Cultures, and Class” from Resistance Through Rituals (on library reserve) (pp.3-59)
R: Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style (excepts)
S: “My Generation” (Who) + “Mother’s Little Helper” (Rolling Stones) (videoclips) + Quadrophenia (film trailer)
February 16 – Makeup Day for April 25
L: Punk rock as a subculture
R: Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style (excepts)
Week Six (Feb. 20-26)
L: Girls & Women in Subcultures
R: McRobbie, Angela, and Jenny Gerber, "Girls and Subcultures" (from Resistance through Rituals) (library reserve) (due 02/20)
L: Rave cultures
R: Reynolds from Generation Ecstasy (due 02/22)
S: Everybody in the Place by Jeremy Deller & Strike: When Britain went to War (finish on your own)
SPRING BREAK
(February 26-March 1)
Week Seven (March 5-12)
L: Cont. Rave cultures
R: Thornton, Sarah, Club Cultures (pp.1-25; 87-105) (on library reserve) (due 03/06)
Week Eight (13-19)
L: Girls and Subcultures, Feminism, and Resistance I
R: (CRR) Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” (12/03) + review
March 14- Midterm Exam
Week Nine (March 20-26)
L: Girls and Subcultures, Feminism, and Resistance II
R: Janice Radway, from Reading the Romance +Riot Grrrl, “Riot Grrrl is…”+ Kathleen Hanna, Interview in Punk Planet (due 03/20)
L: Subcultures & Postfeminism
R: (CRR) Radicalesbians: “The Woman identified Woman” (due 03/22)
Week (March 27-April 2)
L: Drag Queen Subcultures + discussion
S: Paris is Burning (1990) by Jenny Livingstone (03/27)
Extra Reading (recommended): “Containing Fire” (read AFTER the screening)
Week Eleven (April 3-9)
R: (CRR) Stuart Cosgrove, “The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare”+ Frantz Fanon’s Racism and Culture (excerpts) (due 04/05)
S: Zoot-suit Culture (PBS American Experience -clip)
Week Twelve (April 11-16)
L: Gleaning as subcultural resistance
S: The Gleaners and I by Agnes Varda (2000) (library holding)
D: Consumerism, De-Growth, Thrifting & more