- Definition of popular culture ˇV is there one?
- How do we analyze popular culture?
- Debates in cultural studies
Required Readings
Grossberg, Lawrence. (1997). Replacing popular culture. In Steve Redhead, Derek Wynne, & Justin O'Connor (Eds.), The clubcultures reader: Readings in popular cultural studies (pp199-219). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Sguacg, Morag (2005). The Popular. In Raiford A Guins & Omayra Zaragoza Cruz (eds.) Popular culture: A reader (pp. 55-63). London: Sage Publications.
Ch. 1 What is popular Culture (pp.1-20). In Storey, John (1997) An introduction to cultural theory and popular culture.(2nd ed.). London: Prentice Hall/ Harvester Wheatsheaf
Further Readings:
Hall, Stuart (2005). Notes on deconstructing ˇ§The popularˇ¨. In Raiford A Guines & Omayra Zaragoza Cruz (eds.), Popular culture: A reader. (pp. 64-71). London: Sage Publications.
Harringtion, C. Lee & Bielby, Denise D. (Eds). (2001). Constructing the popular: Cultural production and
Consumption. In C. Lee Harirngton & Denise Bielby (Eds.), Popular culture: Production and consumption (pp 1-15). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Optional Readings:
Bayles, M. (1997). Theory, snobbery, and the agony of popular culture. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
43(39) B4-B5.
Browne, Ray. B. (2004). The virus of superficial popular culture studies. In Marshall William Fishwick, Probing popular culture: On and off the internet (pp213-224). New York: The Haworth Press.
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