Introduction to cultural studies II
Denise Cuthbert
6 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton
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Prerequisites: Normally CLS1040
Objectives To introduce students to further aspects of the contemporary discussion of popular culture and to provide students with some of the critical skills necessary for cultural analysis.
Synopsis Continuing the work of CLS1040, this subject will examine a series of popular culture genres and texts drawn from a wide variety of contexts, including children's television, soap opera, romance, crime and science fiction in film, television and the popular novel. Among the recurring motifs in the subject will be questions about the place of Australian popular culture in an increasingly international market and the ways in which popular culture offers the means to define ourselves both in and against world society.
Assessment Essay (2000 words): 40%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
* Tutorial work (including workbook): 20%
Prescribed texts
Day M The life and crimes of Harry Lavender Allen and Unwin, 1988
During S (ed.)The cultural studies reader Routledge, 1993
Keneally T The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Penguin, 1973
Films
Dances with Wolves dir. K Costner, TIG Productions, 1990
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith dir. F Schepsi, 1978
Recommended texts
Bennett T (ed.)Popular fiction: Technology, ideology, production, reading Routledge, 1990
Muecke S Textual spaces: Aboriginality and cultural studies, 1991
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