PERIODS OF EUROPEAN CULTURE 42 - Topics in Popular Culture

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Dartmouth College

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09W: 10A 10W: 11 Applying critical literary theories to the study of popular culture, this course will examine how popular culture is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In 09W, Exhibiting Culture: The World Fairs, 1850-2008. This course examines the intersection of politics, literature, and popular culture in the phenomenon of the "world fair." Fairs exhibit for millions of visitors ideas that also circulate in more rarified quarters. How are ideas of race, gender, nation, and history rendered in the design of exhibits Materials for the course include: historical records of the fairs in Britain, the United States, and France; literature, films and music that reference the fairs; readings in cultural, visual, and architectural theory. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Warren.In 10W, The Cultures of Surveillance. A number of popular film trilogies highlight cultures of surveillance within the context of globalization. We will consider film as genre, global surveillance techniques, intertwined plotlines, geo-political borders, the role of the hero, and the role of viewers. Primary texts: The Matrix trilogy; the Bourne trilogy; and the so-called I árritu trilogy (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel). Critical/theoretical texts: David Lyon's Globalizing Surveillance; Julia Thomas's Reading Images; Benjamin, Sartre, DeLauretis, Barthes, Foucault, Lacan, Zizek, Butler. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Biron

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3.00

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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