IMAGERY AND CULTURE 
(Aristimuño | Spring 2009)

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WEEK 1: INTRO TO CULTURAL STUDIES

EXPLORING IDEOLOGY

TUESDAY Jan 22

THURSDAY Jan 22

TODAY: INTRO TO CLASS

TODAY:

 TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:

REQUIRED

Familarize yourself with this Viewing Guide for bell hooks (we’ll watch the video next class)

WEEK 2 CULTURAL STUDIES (cont'd)

EXPLORING IDEOLOGY 

TUESDAY Jan 27

THURSDAY Jan 29

TODAY: bell hooks: Doing Cultural Criticism

Bring viewing guide to class

TODAY: Examining Capitalism

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:

REQUIRED: finish the following:

Karl Marx, "The Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas"
available online here

Frank Elwell, "The Sociology of Karl Marx"
available online here

Antonio Gramsci: Selections from Prison Notebooks
avaliable on-line here 

FOR NEXT CLASS:

REQUIRED:

1. Louis Althusser "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"    Assigned EXCERPTS

2. ALTHUSSER READING GUIDES 

Guide 1
Guide 2

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WEEK 3 CULTURAL STUDIES

IDEOLOGY & SIGNIFYING PRACTICES

TUESDAY 2/3

THURSDAY 2/5

TODAY: Examining Capitalism (2)

ALTHUSSER: Ideological State Apparatus, Interpellation

TODAY: Examining Capitalism (3)

The Frankfurt School

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:

REQUIRED:
1. Douglas Kellner, "The Frankfurt School"
available on-line here

2.The Culture Industry, Horkheimer and Adorno. Availableon-line HERE   ---

READ approximately Pages 1-7, end when you get to the following words”…this mental state is not nuanced or extended in any way.”

3.  Douglas Kellner, "The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation"
available online here

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS

Stuart Hall: Ch 4: “The Spectacle of the Other” from Representation: Cultural Representations & Signifying Practices

Available here in 4 parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

WEEK 4 Signifying Practices

TUESDAY 2/10

THURSDAY 2/12

TODAY: Signifying Otherness, Race (1)

TODAY – Signifying Otherness, Race (2) 

FOR NEXT CLASS:

FINISH READING :

Stuart Hall: Ch 4: “The Spectacle of the Other” from Representation: Cultural Representations & Signifying Practices

Available here in 4 parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

FOR NEXT CLASS:

WEEK 5 Signifying Practices

Interpretive Strategies

TUESDAY 2/17

THURSDAY 2/19

TODAY:

Signifying Otherness, Race (3)

TODAY: Signifying Otherness, Race in film & television

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:

View: Classified X

VIEW ALL 6 PARTS (in order) on YouTube: click here

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS

Mark Crispin Miller:

"Massa Come Home"

WEEK 6

SELF  and OTHER

TUESDAY 2/24 Signifying Otherness: Tourism as domination

THURSDAY 2/26 

Capitalism and Neo Colonialism

IMAGES OF TOURISM & DOMINATION

Jamaica Commercials

Today: 

View Life & Debt

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:

Read: Guillermo Gomez-Peña – from "Warrior for Gringostroika" (published 1993)

WEEK 7

"Othering the world"

TUESDAY 3/3

 The Latino Other

THURSDAY 3/5 Disney’s Others
 

View Couple in the Cage & "Is my neighbor a Latino?'

Today : The World as "Other" 

 Sign Today : Disney's Others: Our Others

STUDENTS SUBMIT PROPOSALS FOR ESSAYS:

In writing.  Be specific, choose a text that’s manageable

EXAM #2: Take Home

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:

”Animating Youth: the Disnification of Children's Culture” by Henry Giroux

 FOR NEXT CLASS:

 What Have We Done? by Susan Sontag

The Torture Tape Fingering Bush As a War Criminal by Andrew Sullivan

WEEK 8

IMAGERY AND IMPERIALISM

TUESDAY 3/10

Images of the War

Watch Shock Doctrine

THURSDAY 3/12

DECLARE TOPICS FOR YOUR ESSAYS

Today:  TBA

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS: 

“The Engineering of Consent,” by Edward Bernays

“Promoting “Lucky Strike” Cigarettes to Women in the Late 1920s”, by Edward Bernay

 FOR NEXT CLASS

WORK ON YOUR ESSAYS:

WEEK 9 - SPRING BREAK
--NO CLASS THIS WEEK--

TUESDAY  3/17

THURSDAY 3/19

WEEK 10: Practices of Resistance: Culture Jamming

TUESDAY 3/24

**SUBMIT FIRST DRAFT OF ESSAY**
View Culture Jamming Film

THURSDAY 3/26

CULTURE JAMMING
Discuss and Visit Sites

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:
(on-line) On-line Essays & Sites on Culture Jamming

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:
REQUIRED:
 (on-line) On-line Essays & Sites on Culture Jamming

WEEK 11:

Practices of Resistance

TUESDAY 3/31

THURSDAY 4/2

TODAY: 
DISCUSS CULTURE JAMMING PROJECTS

Form Groups

IN GROUPS: PLAN CULTURE JAMS

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:
WRITING "TIPS"

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:
On-line Essays on Culture Jamming

WEEK 12
Practices of Resistance: Alternative Media

TUESDAY 4/7

THURSDAY 4/9

TODAY:

1. Strategies for improving your essays

2. IN GROUPS: Plan Culture Jams: CULTURE JAMMING INTERVENTIONS SHOULD TAKE PLACE THIS WEEKEND & BE COMPLETED BY NEXT TUESDAY  

TODAY:

Alternative Video Practices 1 : Public Television, Culture Wars

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:
READ: MARLON RIGGS, "Tongues Re-Tied"

READ: A Funny Thing is Happening to TV's Public Forum

FOR NEXT CLASS:

Gregg Bordowitz, "Operative Assumptions"

available here

WEEK  13

Practices of Resistance: Alternative Media 2

TUESDAY 4/14

THURSDAY 4/16

TODAY:

Alternative Video Practices 2: Community Media

In Class: PRESENT CULTURE JAMS

Submit Written Documentation of Culture Jam

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:
Henry Jenkins: “Photoshop for Democracy”

View his Conference talk here

WEEK 14

TUESDAY 4/21

TODAY: Alternative Video Practices 3 : Participatory Culture (On-line)

Indy-Media, YouTube, Citizen Journalism

THURSDAY 4/23

New Media Practices

Exam #3: Take Home

TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:Augusto Boal

Games for Actors & Non Actors

(from Rdg. Packet)

WEEK 15

TUESDAY 4/28

THURSDAY 4.30

TODAY:

Meet in Regular Classroom

READ Augusto Boal

TODAY: IMAGE THEATER WORKSHOP

*** WORTH 10 POINTS ***

MEET IN BRADLEY HALL ::: 2nd Floor Rehearsal space (to the right of the main office)

WEEK 16

FINAL DRAFT OF ESSAYS DUE 
12 NOON