Seminar: Thursdays 11:35 – 14:25 p.m. Room: (River Bldg ... · PSCI 5210W Politics and Popular Culture 1 of 20 Winter 2015 CARLETON UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Seminar:

PSCI 5210W Politics and Popular Culture 1 of 20

Winter 2015 CARLETON UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Seminar: Thursdays 11:35 – 14:25 p.m. Room: (River Bldg 3224 - please confirm location on Carleton Central)

Instructor: Prof. Radha Jhappan Office: D697 Loeb Office Hours: Thursdays 15:30-17:30 Fridays 12:00-14:00 Tel: 2788 Email: [email protected]

Course Description As new media both rapidly democratize communications and globalize cultures while participation in formal state-‐focused politics declines in many industrialized societies, political scientists can no longer ignore the complex interactions between politics and popular culture. This interdisciplinary, political sociology course applies theoretical approaches including structuralism, mass culture theory, semiotics, the Frankfurt School, Marxism and political economy, feminism, postmodernism, and post-‐structuralism, to such core themes as political power, consent/dissent, gender, race, class, sexuality, childhood, globalization, and (post-‐) colonialism in film, TV, animation, music, news media, advertising, gaming, pornography, and new digital media. Students will have opportunities to offer term work in creative formats if they choose.

Warning: This course contains expl icit theories and mature ana lyses that some may find disturb ing. May

affect abi l ity to suspend d isbel ief and/or enjoy popular culture. Student discret ion is strongly advised.

Warning: This course contains explicit theories

and analyses that some may find disturbing. May

affect your ability to suspend your disbelief and

enjoy popular culture. Student discretion is

strongly advised.


Course Requirements The final course grade will be based on the following components: Presentation 15% (6-‐8 pages) Journal 30% (based on 5 seminars) One major paper/creative medium 40% (15-‐20 pages) Due March 12, 2015 Participation 15% (based on readings) Presentation - 15% Each student will lead one seminar, to be chosen during the first seminar (Jan. 8), and confirmed no later than the second seminar (Jan. 15), probably with at least one other person, depending on the number of students and interest in given topics. M.A. students are to read at least 3 articles (amounting to at least 65 pages), PhD students at least 4, one of which must be a theoretical piece. Provide a synopsis of the major themes that link the articles/chapters together and distinguish them from one another, paying attention to their methodologies. What are their most interesting and important contributions and why? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How have they enriched (or not) your understanding of the topic in question? Presentations MUST NOT EXCEED 20 minutes. A 6-‐8-‐page paper (depending on format – see below) is due on the presentation date. You may offer your presentation in a creative format – to be discussed with the Instructor beforehand. Depending on the format chosen, we will discuss an appropriate deliverable item. Journal - 30% - February 26 and March 26 The Journal is due in two installments, the first on February 26, the second on March 26. This assignment is based on the readings you will select from those assigned for 5 seminars. You must choose at least 2 weeks/topics from among the first 6 seminars. M.A. students will be expected to address at least 3 readings (comprising 20 pages or more altogether) for each journal entry; PhD students should address at least 4 items. The journal is to consist of summaries of the materials read, together with 2 sets of responses to them: 1. intellectual responses -‐ evaluate the factual information offered in the materials, as well as methodologies, approaches, arguments, logic, organization, contrasting approaches and ideas, and purposes. What is the crux of the issue being discussed, and what is the author trying to say? Is the approach persuasive? How does the material expand our body of knowledge of the issues involved? 2. personal responses -‐ beyond its intellectual properties and impact, how does the material expand your personal understanding of and relationship to politics and popular culture? There are no minimum or maximum page requirements for the journal, although obviously length will be an indicator of effort. An average week’s entry might range from 3 to 6 pages. Your journal will chart your learning process and you will be able to track shifts in your attitudes and directions of thought over the term, so feel free to use your creative talents in making it.


Conduct of the Seminar and Participation Grade - 15% All students are expected to prepare carefully for each seminar by reading a chosen core of required readings listed under each week’s topic, and preparing, in addition to notes for private study, a list of questions and issues emerging from those readings for discussion in the seminar. You will be tempted to base your comments and questions only on your own experience and opinions of popular cultural products. Resist. The general participation grade will be distributed over a variety of kinds of participation in the seminars over the whole length of the course, principally based on the required readings, including: questions and comments to presenters; faithfulness and steadiness in building up central ideas and themes from week to week as our base of knowledge and shared vocabulary grow (which of course requires steady attendance); contribution of information and analysis to the seminars on the basis of good preparation; and, of course, civility and collegiality in providing good questions and bridges into the discussion for others, as well as both collaborating with and arguing against other viewpoints in the development of themes. Please note that the participation grade is not for attendance, although obviously regular attendance is a prerequisite of a good participation mark. N.B. 15% is the difference between an A and a C… Students who do not participate in seminars will receive a zero for this required component of the course, resulting in a final grade of F for the whole course. One major paper/creative medium - 40% - (15-20 pages or equivalent in creative medium) Due March 12 Choose a well-‐known popular culture ‘text’ or artifact that is overtly ‘political’ (a book, film, TV show/episode, advertising series, video game, prime time animation, music video, song/album, fashion, YouTube video, etc.). Apply two of the theoretical approaches to popular culture outlined in the Storey text (and/or elsewhere – e.g. see his Reader, on reserve, or Strinati, listed below) and think through various possible readings of your chosen material. Which approach yields the richest and most fruitful insight into the text/artifact? What does the text/artifact contribute to your understanding of politics? How does it affect you? Your choice of text/artifact and format MUST be approved by the instructor. Required Texts (available at Octopus Books, 116 3rd Ave., [at Bank St.], Tel: 613 233 2589) John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 6th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2012) Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez, eds. GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS IN MEDIA: A CRITICAL READER, 3rd edition, (Sage: London, 2011) For those who crave more theory and/or wish to read at greater depth, the following are on reserve: John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: A READER, 4th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2009)


Dominic Strinati, AN INTRODUCTION TO THEORIES OF POPULAR CULTURE, 2nd edition, (Routledge: New York, 2004)

Seminar 1 (JAN. 8): Introduction

§ general introduction to the course § presentation schedule § film viewing schedule

Ken Robinson, “RSA Animate – School Kills Creativity/ Changing Education Paradigms” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc9D-‐Im68mw http://www.upworthy.com/the-‐secret-‐weapon-‐a-‐woman-‐created-‐to-‐save-‐herself-‐from-‐the-‐brink-‐of-‐suicide-‐2?c=upw1

Seminar 2 (Jan. 15): Theories and Definitions John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 6th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2012): chs. 1, 2, 3 Dines and Humez:

§ Douglas Kellner, “Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture”: 7-‐18 Neil Postman, AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH: PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN THE AGE OF SHOW BUSINESS, (Penguin, 2005): Intro., foreword, chs. 1, 6, 7 Holt Parker, “Toward a Definition of Popular Culture”, in History and Theory 50 (May 2011): 147-‐170 http://uc.academia.edu/HoltParker/Papers/725835/Toward_a_Definition_of_Popular_Culture Susie O’Brien and Imre Szeman, POPULAR CULTURE: A USER’S GUIDE, (Nelson: Scarborough, 2004): ch. 1 “Introducing Popular Culture”: 1-‐20; ch. 2, “The History of Popular Culture”: 23-‐55; ch. 10, “Why Study Popular Culture?”: 295-‐306 John Street, POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE, (Polity Press: Cambridge, 2007): chs. 1, 2 John Storey, ed., CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: A READER, 4th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2009): parts 1, 2 (pieces by Arnold, Leavis, Hoggart, Williams, Thompson, Hall & Whannel) Strinati, xi-‐xvii, ch. 1, “Mass Culture”, ch. 2, “Frankfurt School”


Seminar 3 (Jan. 22?): $£€لایر$ CONSENT/dissent: pop culture as UNofficial opposition?

John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 6th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2012): ch. 4 “Marxisms” Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, MANUFACTURING CONSENT: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MASS MEDIA, (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002), Intro, chs. 1, 2, 7 Downloadable at: http://search.4shared.com/postDownload/qUPMgdrR/Manufacturing_Consent_-‐_The_Po.html Dines and Humez:

§ Dwayne Winseck, “The State of Media Ownership”: 19-‐24 § James Lull, “Hegemony”: 33-‐36 § Stuart Hall, “The White of their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media”: 81-‐84 § Jamie Warner, “Political Culture Jamming: the Dissident Humour of The Daily Show with Jon

Stewart: 145-‐154 Timothy M. Dale and Joseph F. Foy, HOMER SIMPSON MARCHES ON WASHINGTON: DISSENT THROUGH AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, (Univ. of Kentucky Press, 2010):

§ Jamie Warner, “The Daily Show and the Politics of Truth”: 37-‐58 § Joseph J. Foy, “Intro.: Tuning in to Democratic Dissent”: 1-‐ 20 § Timothy M. Dale, “The Revolution is Being Televised”: 21-‐35 § Carl Bergetz, “It’s Not Funny ‘Cause It’s True: the Mainstream

Media’s Response to Media Satire in the Bush Years”: 257-‐276

Jody C. Baumgartner and J.S. Morris, “One ‘Nation’, Under Stephen? The Effects of The Colbert Report on American Youth”, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 52, 4, 2008: 622-‐643 Thomas J. Faletta, “Fakin’ It!: How The Daily Show and the Colbert Report Affect Politics and Policy”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4DDUcUcmPI Leah A. Murray, POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2010):

§ Betty Kaklamanidou, “Michael Moore’s Documentaries: Popular Politics with a Vengeance”: 148-‐158

James Onusko, “Parody and Satire in the 2008 Canadian Federal Election: Reading the Rick Mercer Report”, American Review of Canadian Studies (June 2011), 41 (2): 138-‐149 Susan Riley, “This Hour Has 22 Minutes becomes effective Opposition”, Star Phoenix, 01/03/1997: C1. “Rick Mercer: Political Satire and Election 41” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xN3SCSB4I&feature=relmfu


Ann Coulter, SLANDER: LIBERAL LIES ABOUT THE AMERICAN RIGHT, (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2002), ch. 5, “Advance As If Under Attack: Fox News and the Election”: 95-‐112 http://books.google.ca/books?id=2d102UVq5G4C&pg=PA95&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false Stefano Della Vigna and Ethan Kaplan, “The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting”, Working Paper 12169, (National Bureau Of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, April 2006)

David Brock, THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-‐WING MEDIA AND HOW IT CORRUPTS DEMOCRACY, (Crown Publishers: New York, c2004). JC573.2.U6 B76 2004 (first few pages available on google books), Introduction, ch. 11 (Hate Radio) Strinati, ch. 4, “Marxism, Political Economy, and Ideology” John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: A READER, 4th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2009), Part 3 (Marx, Engels, Adorno, Gramsci, Hall, Laclau & Mouffe) Fox Gets F*%*ed by a Professor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozR72rVR2NY Interviewer Gets F*%*ed by Noam Chomsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_974374&feature=iv&src_vid=ozR72rVR2NY&v=oB1q2tdb-‐Gw Gil Scott-‐Heron – “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw Anonymous is Back, Exposing the New World Order – 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8aerfKwv_A Anonymous, Our Warning to Vic Toews and the Parliament of Canada (08/02/12): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyOQFYeBIho Anonymous: Vic Toews – You were Warned: Identity of Vic Toews’ Mistress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-‐sb0-‐QF0ew8 Anonymous Hacks into Fox News Live on Air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtV1L8OOhXI Anonymous: The Story of the Hacktivists (Full Documentary): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7tQ1VtLMyk RMR Rick’s Rant – Fair Elections Act, 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpW2Wnjcpg RMR: Rick's Rant -‐ Omnibus Bill II: The Sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEi72n6CoZM The Simpsons – http://www.wtso.net/movie/409-‐605_Sideshow_Bob_Roberts.html


“The Simpsons uses Fox News as a Punching Bag” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa1G3Y7ev4Y&feature=related Dead Prez, “Propaganda” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMnLHmTXjgU Film: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) Film: “Rich Media, Poor Democracy” (260893) 2003, 30 mins. Film: ”V for Vendetta”

Seminar 4 (Jan. 29): DISNEYfication of child hood

John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 6th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2012): chs. 5 (Psychoanalysis), 8 (Race, Racism, Representation) Dines and Humez:

§ Lee Artz, “Monarchs, Monster, and Multiculturalism: Disney’s Menu for Global Hierarchy”: 383-‐388

§ Dafna Lemish, “The Future of Childhood in the Global Television Market”: 355-‐364 § Juliet Schor, “From Tony the Tiger to Slime Time Live: the Content of Commercial Messages

in Children’s Advertising”: 365-‐374 Mike Budd and M.H. Kirsch, eds., RETHINKING DISNEY: PRIVATE CONTROL, PUBLIC DIMENSIONS, (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005):

§ Radha Jhappan and Daiva Stasiulis, “Anglophilia and the Discreet Charm of the English Voice in Disney’s Pocahontas Films”: 151-‐177

Brenda Ayres, ed., THE EMPEROR’S OLD GROOVE: DECOLONIZING DISNEY’S MAGIC KINGDOM, (Peter Lang: New York, 2003):

§ Christiane Staninger, “Disney’s Magic Carpet Ride: Aladdin and Women in Islam”: 65-‐77 § Dianne Sachko Macleod, “The Politics of Vision: Disney, Aladdin, and the Gulf War”: 179-‐192

Henry A. Giroux, DISTURBING PLEASURES: LEARNING POPULAR CULTURE, (Routledge: New York, 1994), ch. 2, “Politics and Innocence in the Wonderful World of Disney”: 25-‐46 Peggy Orenstein, CINDERELLA ATE MY DAUGHTER: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE NEW GIRLIE-‐GIRL CULTURE, (Harper Collins: New York, 2011), ch. 3, “Pinked!”, ch. 4 “What Makes Girls Girls?”, ch. 5 “Sparkle Sweetie!”, ch. 10, “Girl Power – No, Really” Sharna Olfman, ed., THE SEXUALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD, (Praeger: Westport CT, 2009):

§ Sharna Olfman, “The Sexualization of Childhood”: 1-‐4 § Matthew B. Ezell, “Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys”: 7-‐32 § Margo Maine, “Something’s Happening Here: Sexual Objectification, Body Image Distress, and

Eating Disorders”: 63-‐74


§ Diane E. Levin, “So Sexy So Soon”: 75-‐88 § Melissa Farley, “Prostitution and the Sexualization of Children”: 143-‐164

Sue Jackson and Elizabeth Westrupp, “Sex, Post-‐feminist Popular Culture and the Pre-‐Teen Girl”, Sexualities, 13 (3): 357–376 Diane E. Levin and Jean Kilbourne, SO SEXY SO SOON: THE NEW SEXUALIZED CHILDHOOD AND WHAT PARENTS CAN DO TO PROTECT THEIR KIDS, (New York: Ballantine Books, 2008), Intro., ch. 1, 4

Charles Wankel and Shaun Malleck, EMERGING ETHICAL ISSUES OF LIFE IN VIRTUAL WORLDS, (Information Age Publishing: Charlotte NC, 2010):

• Andrew A. Adams, “Virtual Sex with Child Avatars”: 55-‐72 Sue Palmer, TOXIC CHILDHOOD: HOW THE MODERN WORLD IS DAMAGING OUR CHILDREN AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT”, (Orion: London, 2006) John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: A READER, 4th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2009), part 5 (Freud, Lacan, Barthes, Althusser, Foucault, Zizek); Part 6 (Gilroy, Hall, West, hooks, Saeed) Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”: http://evans-‐experientialism.freewebspace.com/barthes06.htm Meaghan Ramsay, “Why Thinking You’re Ugly is Bad For You”: https://www.ted.com/talks/meaghan_ramsey_why_thinking_you_re_ugly_is_bad_for_you Riley on Marketing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-‐CU040Hqbas Toddlers and Tiaras – Toddlers and Strippers?!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_bIdTug878; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_bIdTug878 Riley on Marketing (Part 2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn9HA0BUU5o&src_vid=-‐CU040Hqbas&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_485642 Watch What This Make-‐Believe Girl Means To 1,000 Sexual Predators: http://www.upworthy.com/watch-‐what-‐this-‐make-‐believe-‐girl-‐means-‐to-‐1000-‐sexual-‐predators?c=reccon1 Film : “Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power”, (256807), 2001, 52 mins. Film: Reviving Ophelia: Saving The Selves Of Adolescent Girls (255139), 1998, 35 mins


Seminar 5 (Feb. 5):

advertising John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 6th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2012): ch. 6 Dines and Humez:

§ Sut Jhally, “Image-‐Based Culture”: 199-‐204 § Juliet Schor, “The New Politics of Consumption: Why Americans Want So Much More Than They

Need”: 205-‐212 § Gloria Steinem, “Sex, Lies, and Advertising”: 235-‐242 § Rosalind Gill, “Supersexualize Me!: Advertising and the ‘Midriffs’”: 255-‐260 § Jackson Katz, “Advertising and The Construction of Violent White Masculinity: from BMWs to

Bud Light”: 261-‐269

Naomi Klein, : TAKING AIM AT THE BRAND BULLIES, (Vintage, 2000): § “Introduction: A Web of Brands”: xiii-‐xxi § ch. 1 “New Branded world” § ch. 3 “Alt.everything: the youth market and the marketing of cool” § ch. 4 “The branding of learning: ads in schools and universities” § ch. 9 “The discarded factory” § ch. 14 “Bad moon rising: the new anti-‐corporate activism”

Susie O’Brien and Imre Szeman, POPULAR CULTURE: A USER’S GUIDE, (Nelson: Scarborough, 2004): ch. 5, “The Consuming Life”: 135-‐167 Rod Carveth and James B. South, eds. MAD MEN AND PHILOSOPHY: NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS, (Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2010):

§ Kevin Guilfoy, “Capitalism and Freedom in the Affluent Society”: 34-‐50 § Ada S. Jaarsma, “An Existential Look at Mad Men: Don Draper, Advertising, and the Promise of

Happiness”: 85-‐109 (full text available at http://www.mashreghnews.ir/files/fa/news/1392/9/6/448018_884.pdf)

Season 01 Episode 01, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoI4wdiw54U William M. O’Barr, “Mad Men: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Class”, Advertising & Society Review. 11, 4, 2011: http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.library.carleton.ca/journals/advertising_and_society_review/v011/11.4.o-‐barr.html


Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff, eds., NEW FEMININITIES: POSTFEMINISM, NEOLIBERALISM, AND SUBJECTIVITY, (Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2011):

§ Michelle M. Lazar, “The Right to Be Beautiful: Postfeminist Identity and Consumer Beauty Advertising”: 37-‐51

§ Carolyn Pedwell, “The Limits of Cross-‐Cultural Analogy: Muslim Veiling and ‘Western’ Fashion and Beauty Practices”: 188-‐199

Victor C. Strasburger, Barbara Wilson and Amy Jordan, CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND THE MEDIA, 2nd ed. (Sage: Los Angeles, 2009):

§ ch. 2, “Advertising”: 43-‐89 Henry A. Giroux, DISTURBING PLEASURES: LEARNING POPULAR CULTURE, (Routledge: New York, 1994), ch. 1, “Consuming Social Change: the United Colours of Benetton”: 7-‐26 Andrea Millwood Hargrave and Sonia Livingstone, eds. HARM AND OFFENCE IN MEDIA CONTENT: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE, (Intellect Books: Portland OR, 2006): 165-‐173 Strinati, ch. 3, “Structuralism and Semiology” Stephen Sewell, “Does Pop Culture Turn Us Into Consumer Slaves?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vY5zbQJp5s Renata Salecl, “RSA Animate – Choice” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqMY82xzWo&feature=related http://www.upworthy.com/a-‐fashion-‐designer-‐uses-‐her-‐mannequins-‐to-‐send-‐a-‐message-‐that-‐hurts?c=upw1 “Photoshop: the Perfect Lie”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U “Dove, Evolution”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNoo-‐ivduNw Film: “Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women”, 2010, 45 mins. Film: “No logo: brands, globalization, resistance”, (RSV) 51 mins. Film: “Fight Club”

Seminar 6 (Feb. 12): Ound POLITICS

Dines and Humez:

§ Marlo David Azikwe, “More than Baby Mamas: Black Mothers and Hip Hop Feminism”: 137-‐144 John Street, MUSIC AND POLITICS, (Polity Press: Cambridge, 2012):

PSCI 5210W Politics and Popular Culture 1 1 of 20

• “Introduction: Making connections”: 1-‐8 § ch. 3, “Striking a chord: from political communication to political representation”: 41-‐61 § ch. 4 , “All together now: music as political participation”: 62-‐78 § ch. 8, “Politics as music: the sound of ideas and ideology”: 140-‐159

Diane Railton and Paul Watson, MUSIC VIDEO AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION, (Edinburgh University Press, 2011):

§ ch. 1, “Situating Music Video: Between Feminism and Popular Culture”: 17-‐40 § ch. 4, “Music Video in Black and White: Race and Femininity”: 87-‐107 § ch. 6, “Masculinity and the Absent Presence of the Male Body”: 122-‐140

Curtis Fogel and Andrea Quinlan, “Lady Gaga and Feminism: A Critical Debate”, Cross-‐Cultural Communication, 7.3, 2011: 184-‐188

Steven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten, eds. MUSIC AND MANIPULATION: ON THE SOCIAL USES AND SOCIAL CONTROL OF MUSIC, (Berghahn Books: New York, 2006):

§ ch. 9, Marie Korpe, Ole Reitov, and Martin Cloonan, “Music Censorship from Plato to the Present”: 239-‐263

§ ch. 10, Joseph J. Moreno, “Orpheus in Hell: Music in the Holocaust”: 264-‐286 Eunice Rojas and Lindsay Michie, eds. SOUNDS OF RESISTANCE: THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN MULTICULUTRAL ACTIVISM, (Vol. 1 has chapters on resistance music from slave songs to rap, Red Power, U.S. labour movement, Civil Rights, anti-‐Vietnam war, eco-‐protest, and women’s resistance; Vol. 2 has international musical activism – South Africa, Poland, China, Africa, Cuba, Catalonia, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico) Riot Grrrl Manifesto: http://onewarart.org/riot_grrrl_manifesto.htm “Don’t Need You: the Herstory of Riot Grrrl”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9G45K6FgaI Pussy Riot: http://www.theguardian.com/music/pussy-‐riot A Tribe Called Red, “Burn Your Village to the Ground”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGnj_e6gBw Dead Prez, “We Need a Revolution” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPje57RIxw Dead Prez, “Know Your Enemy”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4MBEEHhdQY Dead Prez, “They Schools” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_XGD4j77Dw Linton Kwesi Johnson – “ “Doun de road” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwTl_j4wOjA Live 8, 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHkonojSmRE


Lady Gaga, “Telephone”, March 15, 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBsypHzF3U&ob=av2e Miley Cyrus, “Wrecking Ball”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8 Christina Aguilera and Lil’ Kim, “Can’t Hold Us Down”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8QgUIKXHw&list=RDdg8QgUIKXHw#t=0

ThurSday Feb. 19, Winter Break – no class

Seminar 7 (Feb. 26): femininity/ masculinity/queerying sexuality

John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 6th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2012): ch. 7 Dines and Humez:

§ Jane Gerhard, “Sex and the City: Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism”: 75-‐80 § Mary F. Rogers, “Hetero Barbie?”: 71-‐73 § Richard Butsch, “Ralph, Fred, Archie, Homer, and the King of Queens: Why Television Keeps

Recreating the Male Working-‐Class Buffoon”: 101-‐110 § Gilad Padua, “Educating The Simpsons: Teaching Queer Representations in Contemporary Visual

Media”: 155-‐162 § Chong-‐suk Han, “Sexy Like a Girl and Horny Like a Boy: Contemporary ‘Gay’ Western Narratives

about Gay Asian Men”: 163-‐170 § David Nyland, “When in Rome: Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Sports Talk Radio”: 171-‐184 § Sue Tait, “Television and the Domestication of Cosmetic Surgery”: 509-‐518 § Candace Moore, “Resisting, Reiterating, and Dancing Through: the Swinging Closet Door of Ellen

DeGeneres’s Televised Personalities”: 531-‐540 § Vincent Doyle, “Insiders-‐Outsiders: Dr. Laura and the Contest for Cultural Authority in LGBT Media

Activism”: 601-‐612 Derek A. Burrill, DIE TRYIN’: VIDEOGAMES, MASCULINITY, CULTURE, (Peter Lang: New York, 2008):

§ ch. 1, “Masculinities, Play and Games”: 13-‐44 § Conclusion: 137-‐142

Susie O’Brien and Imre Szeman, POPULAR CULTURE: A USER’S GUIDE, (Nelson: Scarborough, 2004): ch. 6 “Identity and the Body”: 169-‐198 Rob Cover, “First Contact: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and ‘Mainstream’ Film”, International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2000: 71-‐89 Elwood Watson and Marc Shaw, eds., PERFORMING AMERICAN MASCULINITIES: THE 21ST CENTURY MAN IN POPULAR CULTURE, (Indiana U.P.: Bloomington, 2011):

§ Margaret C. Ervin, “The Might of the Metrosexual: How a Mere Marketing


Tool Challenges Hegemonic Masculinity”: 58-‐75 § Michel Boucher, “Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Real Man?: Female-‐to-‐Male Transgender

Embodiment”: 192-‐231 Didi Herman, “‘I’m Gay’: Declarations, Desire, and Coming Out On Prime-‐Time Television”, Sexualities (February 2005), 8 (1): 7-‐29 John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: A READER, 4th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2009), part 4 (Rakow, Radway, Butler) http://www.upworthy.com/baby-‐showers-‐usually-‐lead-‐with-‐its-‐a-‐girl-‐or-‐its-‐a-‐boy-‐heres-‐why-‐thats-‐a-‐problem-‐111114?c=upw1 The Representation Project: “The Mask You Live In”, and “Miss Representation”: http://therepresentationproject.org/films/ “Ellen”, coming out show, 1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it5P0pYCBAA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1tB89HzeE&feature=related Film: Generation M: Misogyny in Media and Culture” (268054), 2008, 60 mins. Film: Further Off The Straight And Narrow (265378), 2006, 60 mins. Film: “The Codes of Gender: Identity and Performance in Pop Culture”, 2009, 73 mins. Seminar 8 (March 5): video games, violence,

war as entertainment Roger Stahl, MILITAINMENT, INC.: WAR, MEDIA, AND POPULAR CULTURE, (Routledge, New York, 2010):

• Introduction: 1-‐19 § ch. 3, “Reality War”: 73-‐90 § ch. 4, “War Games”: 91-‐112 § ch. 5, “Toying with Militainment”: 1331-‐138

Rikke Schubart, F. Virchow et. al., eds., WAR ISN’T HELL, IT’S ENTERTAINMENT: ESSAYS ON VISUAL MEDIA AND THE REPRESENTATION OF CONFLICT, (MacFarland: North Carolina, 2009):

§ Marcus Power, “Digital War Games and Post 9/11 Geographies of Militarism”: 198-‐214 § Helga Tawil-‐Souri, “The Political Battlefield of Pro-‐Arab Video Games on Palestinian Screens”:

215-‐237 Anita Sarkeesian, http://www.feministfrequency.com

§ “TedxWomen Talk about Online Harassment and Cybermobs, 2012” § “Women as Background Decoration” Parts 1 & 2


§ “Damsel in Distress (Parts 1 and 2): Tropes vs. Women” “Feminism vs FACTS (Anita Sarkeesian Destroyed!)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Ju-‐1I1DTU Keith Stuart, “Zoe Quinn: All Gamergate has done is ruin people’s lives”, The Guardian, Dec. 3, 2014: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/03/zoe-‐quinn-‐gamergate-‐interview http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-‐mix/wp/2014/10/15/gamergate-‐feminist-‐video-‐game-‐critic-‐anita-‐sarkeesian-‐cancels-‐utah-‐lecture-‐after-‐threat-‐citing-‐police-‐inability-‐to-‐prevent-‐concealed-‐weapons-‐at-‐event/ Dines and Humez:

§ John Sanbonmatsu, “Video Games and Machine Dreams of Domination”: 427-‐436 § Kevin Schut, “Strategic Simulations and Our Past: the Bias of Computer Games in the

Presentation of History”: 437-‐442 § Elena Bertozzi, “You Play Like a Girl: Cross-‐Gender Competition and the Uneven Playing Field”:

443-‐454 § Lisa Nakamura, “Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: the Racialization of Labor in World of

Warcraft”: 563-‐570 § Robert A. Brookey and Kristopher Cannon, “Sex Lives in Second Life”: 571-‐582

Joel Bakan, CHILDHOOD UNDER SIEGE: HOW BIG BUSINESS TARGETS CHILDREN, (Toronto: Penguin, 2011), ch. 2 (“Whack Your Soul Mate and Boneless Girl”) Nate Garrelts, THE MEANING AND CULTURE OF GRAND THEFT AUTO: CRITICAL ESSAYS, (McFarland & Co.: Jefferson, NC, 2006):

§ David Leonard, “Virtual Gangstas, Coming to a Suburban House Near You”: 49-‐69 § Denis Redmond, “Grand Theft Video: Running and Gunning for the U.S.”: 104-‐114

Victor C. Strasburger, Barbara Wilson and Amy Jordan, CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND THE MEDIA, 2nd ed. (Sage: Los Angeles, 2009): ch. 10, “Video Games”: 435-‐463 David Leonard, “Not a Hater, Just Keepin' It Real: The Importance of Race-‐ and Gender-‐Based Game Studies”, Games and Culture (January 2006), 1 (1): 83-‐88 Karen E. Dill, Brian P. Brown, Michael A. Collins, “Effects of exposure to sex-‐stereotyped video game characters on tolerance of sexual harassment”, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (September 2008), 44 (5): 1402-‐1408 Mark B. Salter, “The Geographical Imaginations of Video Games: Diplomacy, Civilization, America's Army and Grand Theft Auto IV”, Geopolitics (April 2011), 16 (2): 359-‐388 Andrea Millwood Hargrave and Sonia Livingstone, eds. HARM AND OFFENCE IN MEDIA CONTENT: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE, (Intellect Books: Portland OR, 2006): 133-‐140 Katy Perry, “Part of Me”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuwfgXD8qV8 Danielle Leduc: “Katy Perry -‐ Jammed 'Part of Me' Video – Militainment”: http://vimeo.com/39010205


Film: Militainment, Inc.: Militarism And Pop Culture (270746), 2007, 124 mins. Film: Gamer Revolution, Part 1 (266859), 2006, 44 mins. Film: Gamer Revolution, Part 2 (266860), 2006, 44 mins.

Seminar 9 (March 12): Dines and Humez:

§ Gail Dines, “White Man’s Burden: Gonzo Pornography and the Construction of Black Masculinity”: 271-‐282

§ Feona Attwood, “No Money Shot?: …New Sex Taste Cultures”: 283-‐292 § Karen Boyle, “‘That’s So Fun’: Selling Pornography to Men to Women in The Girls Next Door”: 293-‐

300 § Thomas Fahy, “One Night in Paris (Hilton): Wealth, Celebrity, and the Politics of Humiliation”: 301-‐

306 § Jane Caputi, “The Pornography of Everyday Life”: 307-‐320 § Tricia Rose, “There Are Bitches and Hoes”: 321-‐326

Gail Dines, PORNLAND: HOW PORN HAS HIJACKED OUR SEXUALITY, (Beacon Press: Boston, 2010):

§ Preface and Introduction: ix-‐xxxi § ch. 2, “Pop Goes the Porn Culture: Mainstreaming Porn”: 25-‐46 § ch. 4, “Grooming for Gonzo: Becoming a Man in Porn Culture”: 59-‐78 § ch. 5 “Leaky Images: How Porn Seeps into Men’s Lives”: 79-‐98 § ch. 6, “Visible or Invisible: Growing Up Female in a Porn Culture”: 99-‐120 § ch. 7, “Racy Sex, Sexy Racism”: 121-‐140 § ch. 8, “Children: The Final Taboo”: 141-‐162

Ann C. Hall and Mardia J. Bishop, eds., POP-‐PORN: PONROGRAPHY IN AMERICAN CULTURE, (Praeger: Westport, Conn., 2007):

§ Katherine N. Kinnick, “Pushing the Envelope: the Role of Mass Media in the Mainstreaming of Pornography”: 7-‐ 26

§ Mardia Bishop, “The Making of a Pre-‐pubescent Porn Star” Contemporary Fashion for Elementary School Girls”: 45-‐56

§ Dawn Heinecken, “Toys Are Us: Contemporary Feminisms and the Consumption of Sexuality”: 121-‐136

§ Hannah B. Harvey and Karen Robinson, “Hot Bodies on Campus: The Performance of Porn Chic”: 57-‐74

Film : Price Of Pleasure (268053), 20089, 55 mins.


Seminar 10 (March 19): new media/ (anti-) social media

Dines and Humez:

§ Danah Boyd, “Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: the Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life”: 409-‐418

Merlyna Lim, “Clicks, Cabs, and Coffee Houses: Social Media and Oppositional Movements in Egypt, 2004-‐2011”, Journal of Communication, 62, 2012: 231-‐248

Paula Todd, EXTREME MEAN: TROLLS, BULLIES AND PREDATORS ONLINE, (Signal: Toronto, 2014), chs. 1, 5, 6, 9 Mattathias Schwartz, “The Trolls Among Us”, New York Times Magazine, 2008 (just google it and you can download as a .doc file) Jose Marichal, FACEBOOK DEMOCRACY: THE ARCHITECTURE OF DISCLOSURE AND THE THREAT TO PUBLIC LIFE, (Ashgate: Burlington, VT.: 2012), Intro., chs. 3, 4 Alice E. Marwick, STATUS UPDATE: CELEBRITY, PUBLICITY, AND BRANDING IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE, (Yale U. P., 2013): Intro. , ch. 3 (“Microcelebrity”), ch. 4 (“Self-‐branding”), ch. 5 (“Lifestreaming: we live in public”) Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff, eds., NEW FEMININITIES: POSTFEMINISM, NEOLIBERALISM, AND SUBJECTIVITY, (Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2011):

§ Jessica Ringrose, “Are You Sexy, Flirty, Or a Slut?: Exploring ‘Sexualization’ and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on Social Networking Sites”: 99-‐116

Leah A. Murray, POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2010):

§ LaChrystal Ricke, “PoliticalTube: the Impact of YouTube on Politics”: 113-‐125 Molly Sauter, “LOIC Will Tear Us Apart: The Impact of Tool Design and Media Portrayals in the Success of Activist DDOS Attacks (Anonymous)”, American Behavioral Scientist (July 2013), 57 (7): 983-‐1007 Victor C. Strasburger, Barbara Wilson and Amy Jordan, CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND THE MEDIA, 2nd ed. (Sage: Los Angeles, 2009): ch. 4, “Pro-‐social Effects of Media”: 117-‐144 Andrea Millwood Hargrave and Sonia Livingstone, eds. HARM AND OFFENCE IN MEDIA CONTENT: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE, (Intellect Books: Portland OR, 2006): 141-‐156 Siva Vaidhyanathan, THE GOOGLIZATION OF EVERYTHING (AND WHY WE SHOULD WORRY), (Berkeley:

University of California Press, 2011), Intro., chs. 3, 4 Eugeny Morosov, “RSA Animate -‐ The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk8x3V-‐sUgU&feature=related

“It’s Over Steve!!!”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5RzQCx7So


“Adolph Harper loses it”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GS_X9hYII “President Obama Slow Jamming the News on Jimmy Fallon”, 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFQIciWsF4

Seminar 11 (March 26): gl balization

John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 6th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2012): ch. 9 Dines and Humez:

§ Chris Jordan, “Marketing ‘Reality’ to the World: Survivor, Post-‐Fordism, and Reality Television”: 459-‐465

§ Henry Jenkins III, “Pop Cosmopolitanism: Mapping Cultural Flows in the Age of Media Convergence”: 545-‐551

Horace Miner, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema”, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 58, No. 3. (Jun., 1956): 503-‐507: http://personal-‐pages.lvc.edu/sayers/miner_nacirema.pdf Ratna Kapur, “ Pink Chaddis and SlutWalk Couture: The Postcolonial Politics of Feminism Lite”, Feminist Legal Studies, April 2012, 20, 1: 1-‐20 Lane Crothers, GLOBALIZATION AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, (Rowman & Littlefield: New York, 2007): chs. 1, 5 Susie O’Brien and Imre Szeman, POPULAR CULTURE: A USER’S GUIDE, (Nelson: Scarborough, 2004): ch. 9, “Globalization and Popular Culture”: 263-‐292 Michel Filion, “Broadcasting and cultural identity: the Canadian experience”, Media, Culture & Society (July 1996), 18 (3): 447-‐467 Ofra Goldstein-‐Gidoni, “The Production and Consumption of ‘Japanese Culture’ in the Global Cultural Market”, Journal of Consumer Culture (July 2005), 5 (2): 155-‐179 Jack Banks, “MTV and the Globalization of Popular Culture”, Gazette (Feb. 1997), 59 (1): 43-‐60 Rajinder Dudrah and Jigna Desai, THE BOLLYWOOD READER, (Maidenhead, Berkshire, England; New York: McGraw-‐Hill/ Open University Press, 2008):

§ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, “The "Bollywoodization" of the Indian cinema: cultural nationalism in a global arena”: 190-‐200

§ Nitin Govil, “Bollywood and the frictions of global mobility”: 201-‐215 John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: A READER, 4th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2009), part 7 (Baudrillard, Creed, Wilson)


Seminar 12 (April 2):

John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 6th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2012): ch. 10 David A. Schultz, ed., IT’S SHOW TIME: MEDIA, POLITICS, AND POPULAR CULTURE, (Peter Lang: New York, 2000):

§ Gregory W. Streich, “Mass Media, Citizenship, and Democracy: Revitalizing Deliberation?”: 51-‐72

§ Thomas J Johnson and Barbara K. Kaye, “Democracy’s Rebirth or Demise?: The Influence of the Internet on Political Attitudes”: 209-‐228

Dines and Humez:

§ Janice Peck, “The Anxieties of the Enterprising Self and the Limits of Mind Cure in the Age of Oprah”: 497-‐508

John Street, Sanna Inthorn, and Martin Scott, FROM ENTERTAINMENT TO CITIZENSHIP: POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE, (Manchester U.P., 2013) Neil Postman, AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH: PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN THE AGE OF SHOW BUSINESS, (Penguin, 2005): ch. 9 (“Reach Out and Elect Someone”) David J. Jackson, ENTERTAINMENT AND POLITICS: THE INFLUENCE OF POP CULTURE ON YOUNG ADULT POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION, (Peter Lang: New York, 2002): Intro. (1-‐21), ch. 7 (Rap), ch. 9 (Classic Rock and Country Music), Ch. 10 (120-‐134) Jeffrey P. Jones, “A Cultural Approach to the Study of Mediated Citizenship”, Social Semiotics (June 2006), 16 (2): 365-‐383 John Street, POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE, (Polity Press: Cambridge, 2007): ch. 7 John Storey, CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE: A READER, 4th edition (Pearson: Edinburgh, 2009), part 8 (Bourdieu, Hall, Grossberg)


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