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
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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