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Test Instructions/Dates:D

Test Instructions/Dates:D

by Jaroslav Kušnír -
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Dear Lit and Pop Culture friends:D,

happy holidays, great Christmas and a Happy New Year first. But before it happens, just a couple of instructions for the exam/test in Literature and Pop Culture. Please, study the following materials for the exam:

D. Storey: “What is Popular Culture?” http://www.mdw.ac.at/upload/MDWeb/ims/pdf/Storey,_Kap.1.pdf

·         L. Fiedler: Cross the Border-Close that Gap (to be downloaded)

·    Shusterman, R. The Fine Art of Rap, from Pragmatist Aesthetics, 2000(in the moodle and online)

Grassian, D.“Introduction.” Grassian, D. Writing the Future of Black America: Literature of the Hip- Hop Generation. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2009. 1-18.

Sontag, S. Notes on Camp http://www9.georgetown.edu/  faculty/irvinem/theory/sontag-notesoncamp-1964.html

Reading/Texts/Lyrics:

 Public Enemy: Fight the Power

Stetsasonic: Talkin´All that Jazz

Snoop Dogg:Doggystyle

Eminem: Lose Yourself;


Literature and Pop Music:

 R. Cortez Cruz: Welcome to the Ghetto, from Premature Autopsies (see https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4467&context=iowareview)

                                 Postmodernism and Film: Kill Bill 1

 Soap Operas, Sitcoms, and Cartoon

2 articles in the Moodle

Texts/Visual Programs

 Two and Half Men; the Simpsons (the episodes you have chosen)
For the test, please, apply throught the doodle system, you will be notified soon about the dates:D

See you next year:D

J. Kušnír