ISSUES IN CULTURAL STUDIES

MATERIALS

Roland Barthes, Mythologies
Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style
bell hooks, Outlaw Culture
Course Pack (two dozen items).

COURSE SCHEDULE

Preview: Cultural Studies vs. Literary Studies

Leitch and Lewis, "Cultural Studies U.S."
Leitch, "Cultural Criticism"
"Cultural Studies Bibliography"

I. Subcultures

Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Leitch, "Blues Southwestern Style"

II. Postmodern Culture

Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto"
Frank, "Alternative to What?"

III. The Discipline of Cultural Studies

Two Sample Cultural Studies Programs (UNC Chapel Hill and NYU American Studies)
Leitch, "Theory Ends"

IV. Institutions of Popular Culture

Barthes, Mythologies
Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
hooks, Outlaw Culture

V. Body Studies

Foucault, "The Carceral"
Bordo, Unbearable Weight, chaps. 5 and 6
L. Davis, "Visualizing the Disabled Body"
duCille, "Multicultural Barbie"

VI. Globalization

Barlow and Clarke, "Who Owns Water?"
Soros, "Toward a Global Open Society"
Wallerstein, "Typology of Crises in the World-System"
World Social Forum, Charter of Principles
Schiffrin, Introduction, The Business of Books
Bourdieu, "Culture in Danger"
Leitch, "Globalization of Literatures"

COURSE PACK--READING LIST

1. Vincent B. Leitch and Mitchell Lewis, “Cultural Studies U. S.,” Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, rev. ed. (2005).

2. Vincent B. Leitch, “Cultural Criticism,” The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993).

3. “Cultural Studies Bibliography,” Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, gen. ed. Vincent B. Leitch (2001).

4. Vincent B. Leitch, “Blues Southwestern Style,” Theory Matters (2003).

5. Fredric Jameson, “Postmodernism and Consumer Society” in Postmodernism and Its Discontents, ed. E. A. Kaplan (1988).

6. Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs,” Socialist Review (1985).

7. Thomas Frank, “Alternative to What?” in Commodify Your Dissent, eds. Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland (1997).

8. NYU Program in American Studies and Cultural Studies Program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (descriptions from websites).

9. Vincent B. Leitch, “Theory Ends,” Living with Theory (2008).

10. Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster (1971).

11. Michel Foucault, “The Carceral,” Discipline and Punish, trans. Alan Sheridan (1977).

12. Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, essays 5 and 6.

13. Lennard J. Davis, “Visualizing the Disabled Body,” Enforcing Normalcy (1995).

14. Ann duCille, “Dyes and dolls: multicultural Barbie and the merchandizing of difference” in A Cultural Studies Reader (1995), eds. Jessica Munns and Gita Rajan.

15. Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, “Who Owns Water?,” The Nation September 2-9, 2002.

16. George Soros, “Toward a Global Open Society,” The Atlantic Monthly 281 (Jan. 1998).

17. Immanuel Wallerstein, “Typology of Crises in the World-System,” Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-System (1991), chap. 8.

18. World Social Forum, Charter of Principles (taken from website)

19. André Schiffrin, Preface, The Business of Books (2000).

20. Pierre Bourdieu, “Culture in Danger,” Firing Back (2003).

21. Vincent B. Leitch, "Globalization of Literatures," Living with Theory (2008).