Spring
2007
Dept. of Languages, Culture, and Aesthetics, AAU
The Spring 2007 course in
cultural analysis for Culture and Media Studies will have three foci:
(1) human environments and “the culture of everyday life,” (2) social
and political margins and their subcultural expressions, and (3)
seeing/interpreting visual culture(s).
Readings will be oriented
toward recent theories of comprehending and expressing “everyday” human
life as cultural forms and phenomena, as well as the problem of
“observing” culture, the mechanics of that act and the ways in which
the “seen” (observed) becomes cultural.
Ben Dorfman, ed., Culture,
Media, Theory, Practice: Perspectives is required background
reading for the CMS program. This text is available in the Aalborg
University bookstore.
Other required and optional
readings
will be made available in a course pack for individual photocopying.
Useful titles you might want
to acquire for the course and subsequent project work
1. Ben Highmore, ed. The Everyday Life Reader
2. Ken Gelder and Sarah Thornton, ed. The Subculture Reader
3. Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed. The Visual Culture Reader
Course plan:
Session 1, Feb. 8: Bent Sørensen, What is
cultural analysis? The case of 9-11
Readings:
-
Bent Sørensen: "Derrida, 9-11
and Cultural Analysis". Culture, Media, Theory, Practice:
Perspectives: pp. 129-143
- Jim
Grove: "Picking up the Pieces: 9/11 and the Crisis of Identity in Art
Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No
Towers"
Session 2, Feb. 15: Bent Sørensen, Everyday
life as cultural manifestation
Readings:
-
Joe Moran: " Introduction:
waiting, cultural studies and the quotidian". Reading the Everyday:
pp. 1-28
-
Mikael Vetner: "Do Artifacts
Have Meanings?" Culture, Media, Theory, Practice: Perspectives:
pp.190-221
Session 3, March 1: Bent Sørensen,
Subcultural responses: cultural resistance as performance
NB! - Room 2.127 - This
is last week's session which was cancelled due to inclement weather!
Session 4, March 8: Ben Dorfman, The "New" Cultural
History
Readings:
-
Lynn Hunt, "Introduction: History,
Culture, and Text" in The New
Cultural History, ed. Lynn Hunt (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1989), 1-24
NEW!! OPEN GUEST LECTURE,
March 12, 12.15 - 14.00, room 3.117:
Mary Beth Looney: In the
Halls and on the
Walls: Women and Museums
Session 5,
March 15, 10.00 - 11.45: Mary Beth Looney, Women, Art and the Museum
Readings:
- Mary Beth Looney: "‘Dove sono le donne artisti?’…and Other
Questions Regarding Revisionist Art History and Italian Women" in Transatlantic, CTS 2, Aalborg UP,
eds. Camelia Elias, Andrea Birch (Downloan through Bibliotek.dk NB! You'll get the whole book, 1,2MB)
- Linda
Nochlin. "Why Are There No Great Women Artists?" (1971) in Women, Art and Power and Other Esssays,
Icon Editions, 1988
- Interview
with Linda Nochlin, In ArtNews,
February 2007 (Download here)
Session 5, pt 2,
2.30 - 5.00: Mary Beth Looney, Women, Art and the Museum
Excursion
to Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum!!
Session 6,
March 22: Ben Dorfman, Culture,
History and Perspective
Readings:
- Jonathan
L. Beller, "Kino-I, Kino-World: Notes on the Cinematic Mode of
Production" in The Visual Culture
Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff (London: Routledge, 1998),
60-85
- Optional
Reading: Ben Dorfman, "Man and Dog: A Phenomenologist and His
Modernism" (forthcoming book chapter, 2007)
Session 7, March 29: Ben Dorfman, "Alltägliche kulturanalyse":
Analyzing the "Surrounding World"
Readings:
- Jean Baudrillard, "Structures of
Interior Design" in The Everyday
Life Reader, ed. Ben Highmore (London: Routledge, 2001),
308-17
- Lynn Spigel, "Installing the Television
Set" in The Everyday Life Reader,
325-38
Take
home exam questions are here
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