1. Orientation.
2. Huyssen on the high/low divide; Leavis and the British literary tradition;
3. Adorno and continental Marxism on cultural industry and popular music (jazz horoscope radio)
Discussion--- differences and similarities (Storey Intro 85)
4. Structuralism. Cawelti on formula; the early Barthes (Myth Today from Storey; Source selection); Neale on genre; Eco’s application of Propp
Discussion----- overarching narrative structure and textual meaning; compare Bond analysis (Turner 114; Lindner (James Bond Phenomenon151 technology) (Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies using Eco)
5. Cultural Studies I: from Althusser (Macherey) to Gramsci (Storey 96 103)
Application ----- feminist film theory/the Screen school Mulvey and classic Hollywood movies
6. Cultural Studies II: post-structuralism meaning-making resistance/agency. Hall (current news TV) (encoding/decoding) Bennett on Blackpool 147 Hebdige on subculture (2). Fiske and populism (Storey 504) de Certeau on everyday practice (491)
7. Feminist cultural studies and women’s genres. The pleasure/determinism debate Webster (Storey 554). from Slator (165); from Turner (198). music and fashion (Storey 392 403);feminist film theory on spectatorship/identification (Mulvey II Doane Gledhill); pleasure essay; "Rebecca"
8.Second-wave feminist criticism: Fowler on romance; formulaic pattern; “screen effect” and wishful fulfillment; enforced heterosexuality; Modleski and Radway; intro in Romance Revisited 15-32 and “Understanding the Romance” Feminist Popular Fiction 38-43;
9. "Rebecca" (film and essay); "Sex and the City" (text)
10. Postfeminism. Empowerment and femininity. "Fatal Attraction." "Legally Blonde"
11. Postfeminism. Girl power and neoliberal consumer culture, “Good Girls”/”Bad Girls,” “chick lit”: "Sex and the City"
12. Postfeminism: Empowerment and female sexuality. Madonna. Fifty Shades of Grey
13. Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia; "The Purloined Letter;" Christie; Chandler, Trouble is My Business (textual discussion)
14.Detective fiction. ; Todorov-formula; Sherlock Holmes (Eva)
15. Psychoanalytic approach: pleasure and guilt ( Zizek Looking Awry and Pederson-Krag);
16. Grossvogel on Agatha Christie; Dana on Poe and the flaneur
17. materialist (Jameson on Chandler; Stowe); Raymond Chandler and film noir
18. metaphysical (Holquist; Detecting Texts—Black) ; from "The Davinci Code;" feminist detective story as resistance (Feminist popular fiction Copra)?
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