British Cultural Studies 340-AS2-1KB
The aim of the course is to introduce and consolidate knowledge of the phenomena forming the basis of research on culture conducted in the 20th and 21st centuries in Britain. The lecture provides an overview of the most important texts published by British cultural researchers.
What is Cultural Studies?
Intellectuals behind British Cultural Studies – Gramsci, Althusser
Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950; The Long Revolution
Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson (eds), Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain
Stuart Hall, Encoding/Decoding
Dick Hebdige. Subculture
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain
Paul Gilroy. There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack
Paul Willis, Learning to Labour: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs.
Women's Studies Group, Women Take Issue: Aspects of Women's Subordination
Angela McRobbie. Feminism and Youth Culture
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Learning outcomes
KA6_WG9
KA6_WG11
KA6_UW4
KA6_UK3
KA6_KO5
KA6_KO4
Assessment criteria
The course ends with a credit. In order to obtain the credit the students are required to pass a written test checking their mastery of the material. The form of the test is determined by the teacher at the first meeting, but it may be modified during the semester, after consulting the details with the students.
Bibliography
Baldwin, E. et al., Introducing Cultural Studies, Pearson Prentice Hall 2004
Barker, C., Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, Sage 2004
Jefferson, T. and S. Hall, Resistance through Rituals, Routledge 2002
Gray, A. and J. McGuigan (eds), Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader, Edward Arnold 1997 Hebdige, D. Subculture: the Meaning of Style, Routledge 1998
Storey, J. Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture, Edinburgh University Press 1996
Greame Turner, British Cultural Studies. An Introduction, 3rd edition
CCCS Selected Working papers, ed. by A. Gray, J. Campbell, M. Erickson, S. Hanson, H. Wood, Routledge 2007, vol. 1, 2. Reading into cultural studies
Companion to Cultural Studies, ed. by T. Miller, Blackwell 2001.
Class and contemporary British culture
S. During, Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge 1999.
Paul Willis, Learning to labour, New York 1977.
Cultural studies and the working class, ed. by S.R. Munt, Cassell 2000.
A. Easthope, Literary into cultural studies, Routledge 1991.
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