Tuesday 3/30

Thursday 4/1

• Welcome to Popular Culture!
• Pick up reading packet as soon as possible--we will be jumping right in.
• Syllabus and assignment review
• Brief history of Cultural Studies
• Questionnaire--fill out in class

Reading: Schafermayer "Film Criticism" (#1)

• Film clips and discussion of reading (Schafermayer)

Tuesday 4/6

Thursday 4/8

Reading: Scholes (#2), Arnold (#3), Conrad (#4)

• Watch The Simpsons episode in class

Reading: Jenkins (#5), Postman (#6), Rapping (#7), Stallybrass (#8)

• Unbreakable clip
• TV & carnivalesque discussion

Due: TV Narrative Assignment

Tuesday 4/13

Thursday 4/15

Reading: Maasik (#9), Barthes (#10)

• Semiotics lecture

Reading: Jameson (#11), Foucault (#12), Horkheimer (#13)

Due: Create Your Own Movie Canon

Tuesday 4/20

Thursday 4/22

Reading: Benjamin (#14), Coyle (#15), Gramsci (#16)

• What is art, Art, "Art"?

Reading: Baudrillard (#17), Foster (#18), Watson (#19), Gordon (#20)

Watch The Matrix by this class session.

Tuesday 4/27

Thursday 4/29

Reading: Bright (#21), "Should. . ." (#22), Bright (#23)

• History of Feminism (Abridged)
• Watch Friends episode in class

Reading: Johnson (#24), Easton (#25), Gladwell (#26)

Tuesday 5/4

Thursday 5/6

Reading: Wilson (#27), Dillon (#28), Corinna (#29), Goodman (#30), "The Good Wife's. . ." (#31)

Watch High Fidelity by this class session.

Reading: Miller (#32)

• Watch Buffy episode in class.

Tuesday 5/11

Thursday 5/13

Guest Lecturer: Chris Ross; readings TBD

Reading: Dery (#33), readings #34-#38

Watch Fight Club by this class session.

Tuesday 5/18

Thursday 5/20

Reading: Wolfe (#39), Schor (#40), Todd (#41)

Reading: Bordo (#42), de Zengotia (#43), Gladwell (#44), Parker (#45)

Due: Create an Object Paper

Tuesday 5/25

Thursday 5/27

Reading: Wilson (#46), Eco (#47 & #48), The Onion (#49)

• Presentations

Tuesday 6/1

Thursday 6/3

• Presentations

• Presentations

Due: Take Home Final

No Final Class Session

Have a great Summer Break!