Module
A
1)
The Cultural Studies Reader
(3rd ed.), ed. S. During, London and New York: Routledge, 2007. È
obbligatorio lo studio di:
S.
During, “Introduction” (pp. 1-30); S. Hall, “Cultural Studies
and Its Theoretical Legacies” (pp. 33-44); R. Barthes, “From Work
to Text” (pp. 81-87); B. Anderson, “Imagined Communities” (pp.
253-263); J. Butler, “Subversive Bodily Acts” (pp. 371-382); Th.
Adorno, M. Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry: Enlightment as Mass
Deception” (pp. 405-415); S. Hall, “Encoding, Decoding” (pp.
477-487).
2)
S. Streeby, “Popular, Mass, and High Culture”, in A
Concise Companion to American Studies,
ed. J. C. Rowe, Malden (MA): Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 432-452 [*]
3)
One essay, in its original edition or in translation:
R.
Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy,
London, Chatto & Windus, 1957; B. Rosenberg, D. M. White (eds),
Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in
America, Glencoe, The Free Press, 1957;
E. Morin, L’Esprit du temps,
Paris, Éditions Grasset & Frasquelle, 1962; R. Williams. Culture
and Society, New York: Columbia
University Press, 1963; M. McLuhan, Understanding
Media: The Extensions of Man, New York,
McGraw-Hill, 1964; J. G. Cawelti, Adventure,
Mystery and Romance: Formula Stories As Art and Popular Culture,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976; L.A. Fiedler, Freaks:
Myths and Images of the Secret Self,
London, Simon and Schuster, 1978; H. White, Tropics
of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism,
Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1978; C. Lasch, The
Culture of Narcissism, New York,
Norton, 1979; M. Foucault, Histoire de
la sexualité. 1: La volonté de savoir, Paris
Gallimard, 1976; id., Histoire de la sexualité. 2:
L’usage des plaisirs, Paris,
Gallimard, 1984; id., Histoire de la
sexualité. 3: Le souci de soi, Paris,
Gallimard, 1984; P. Bourdieu. Ce que
parler veut dire: l’économie des échanges linguistiques,
Paris, Fayard, 1982; A. Khatibi, Amour
Bilingue, Montpellier, Fata Morgana,
1983; G.C. Spivak, In Other Worlds:
Essays in Cultural Politics, New York,
Methuen,1987; H.L. Gates jr., The
Signifying Monkey. A Theory of African American Literary Criticism,
New York, Oxford University Press, 1988; E.S. Herman, N. Chomsky,
Manufacturing Consent: The Political
Economy of the Mass Media, New York,
Pantheon, 1988; J. Fiske, Understanding
Popular Culture, London, Unwin Hyman,
1989; A. Easthope, Literary into
Cultural Studies, New York and London,
Routledge, 1991; J. Guimond, American
Photography and the American Dream,
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991; N. Postman.
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to
Technology, New York, Vintage Books,
1992; M. de Certeau, La culture au
pluriel, Paris, Seuils, 1993; E. Said.
Culture and Imperialism,
London, Chatto & Windus, 1993; H.K. Bhabha. The
Location of Culture, New York and
London, Routledge, 1994; b. hooks, Outlaw
Culture: Resisting Representation, New
York and London, Routledge, 1994; James G. Carrier (ed.),
Occidentalism. Images of the West,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995; J. Dean, Publicity’s
Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy,
Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2002; J.P. Russo, The
Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society,
Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2005; D. R. Bach, The
American Counterculture. A History of Hippies and Cultural
Dissidents, Lawrence, University Press
of Kansas, 2020; M. Garber, Character.
The History of a Cultural Obsession,
New York, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2020.
Module
B
1)
T. Miller, Television Studies. The
Basics, London and New York, Routledge,
2010.
2)
B. Baley, D. Farber (eds.), America in
the Seventies, Lawrence, University
Press of Kansas, 2004. È obbligatorio lo studio di:
B.
Bailey, E. Farmer, “Introduction” (pp. 1-8); E. Porter,
“Affirming and Disaffirming Actions. Remaking Race in the 1970s”
(pp. 50-74); B. Bailey, “‘She Can Bring Home the Bacon’.
Negotiating Gender in the 1970s” (pp. 107-128); T. Moy, “Culture,
Technology, and the Cult of Tech in the 1970s” (pp.208-228). [*]
3)
M. M. Brundsdale, “Columbo: The Disheveled Detective”, in Icons
of Mystery and Crime and Detection: From Sleuth to Superhero. Vol. 1,
Santa Barbara (Cal.), Greenwood Icons, 2010 (pp. 199-228). [*]
4)
Four episodes, for choice, from Columbo
(two from seasons 1-7, two from seasons 8-12).
[*]
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