Cultural Studies and the Problem of Form

Spring 2010 MCM 2310G S01

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Instructor: Ellen Frances Rooney

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Course Description

This course examines the emergence and contemporary practice of "cultural studies" with a focus on concepts of form. We will consider cultural studies critiques of disciplines, canons, and the aesthetic; the politics of form; theories of reading and spectatorship; "popular" and "mass" forms; and competing definitions of culture as form arising in fields from visual and media studies to postcoloniality and queer theory. Readings from Williams, Hall, Mulvey, Althusser, Spivak, Deleuze, Hartman, Agamben, Sedgwick, Galloway. Permission required for undergraduates only. All students seeking permission must attend first class.