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Master of Arts-Integrated Studies 625: Critical Perspectives in Cultural Studies is a foundational course for the Cultural Studies stream of the Master of Arts-Integrated Studies. In this course students learn about the history and origins of cultural studies, analyze and discuss some of the key theoretical debates initiated in and around what constitutes cultural studies, and review examples of the range of approaches that continue to shape and reshape [the ever-expanding boundaries of] the field. Students are also given the opportunity to apply this knowledge by producing, as their final assignment, an analysis of a cultural text or practice-in short, to actually do cultural studies themselves.

Unit 1

Required Readings
Giroux, Henry, et al.
"The Need for Cultural Studies." EServer Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Collection.
Schulman, Norma .
"Conditions of their Own Making: An Intellectual History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham." Canadian Journal of Communication. Vol 18, No 1 (1993).
Seiler, Robert.
Human Communication in the British Cultural Studies Tradition.
Supplementary Readings
Chronicle World. Chronicle World. Revealed: How UK media fuelled race prejudice.
Biographical information on Stuart Hall
Eagleton, Terry. “Chapter 1: The Rise of the English.” Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. 17–53
Grossberg, Lawrence. “Toward a Genealogy of the State of Cultural Studies.” Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies. Ed. Cary Nelson and D. P. Goankar. New York: Routledge, 1996. 131–148.
McIlroy, John, and Sallie Westwood. Border Country: Raymond Williams in Adult Education. Leicester: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 1993.
Steele, Tom. The Emergence of Cultural Studies 1945–65: Cultural Politics, Adult Education and the “English” Question. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1997.

Journal Articles

Johnson, R. “What is Cultural Studies Anyway?” Social Text 6.1 (1987): 38–80.
Lave, Jean, Paul Duguid, Nadine Fernandez, and Erik Axel. “Coming of Age in Birmingham: Cultural Studies and Conceptions of Subjectivity.” Annual Review of Anthropology 21 (1992): 257–282.
Schwartz, Stephen Adam. “Everyman an Ubermensch: The Culture of Cultural Studies.” SubStance 29.1 (2000): 104–138.

Unit 2

Required Readings
Hall, Stuart.
"Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms." Media Culture Society Vol 2, No. 57, 1989.
Fiske, John.
Introduction to Communication Studies. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1991.
Hall, Stuart.
"Encoding/Decoding." The Cultural Studies Reader. Ed. Simon During. London: Routledge, 1999. 507-517, Bib. 577-599.
Fiske, John.
"Chapter 2: Commodities and Culture." Understanding Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 1989. 23-47.
Supplementary Readings

Unit 2: Theoretical Influences and Key Debates

Books and Articles in Anthologies

Althusser, Louis.

“Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” Trans. Ben Brewster. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. London: New Left Books, 1971. 127–188.

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Barthes, Roland. “Myth Today.” Mythologies. Trans. Annette Lavers. New York : Hill and Wang, 1972. 109–159.
Berman, Russel A. Modern Culture and Critical Theory: Art, Politics and the Legacy of the Frankfurt School. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Eagleton, Terry. “Ideology and Its Vicissitudes in Western Marxism.” Mapping Ideology. Ed. Slavoj Zizek. London: Verso, 1994. 179–226.
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi; Foreword Fredric Jameson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Deconstruction and Cultural Studies: Arguments for a Deconstructive Cultural Studies.” Deconstructions: A User’s Guide. Ed. Nicholas Royle. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 14–43.

Journal Articles

Armstrong, Nancy. “Who’s Afraid of the Cultural Turn?” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 12.1 (2001): 17–49.
Cheyfitz, Eric. “What Work Is There for Us To Do? American Literary Studies or Americas Cultural Studies?” American Literature 67.4 (1995): 843–853.
Cohen, Tom. “‘Along the Watchtower’—Cultural Studies and the Ghost of Theory.” MLN 112.3 (1997): 400–430.
Elliott, J. E. “From Language to Medium: A Small Apology for Cultural Theory as Challenge to Cultural Studies.” New Literary History 29.3 (1998): 385–413.
Felski, Rita. “Modernist Studies and Cultural Studies: Reflections on Method.” Modernism/Modernity 10.3 (2003): 501–517.
Frow, John.  “Michel De Certeau and the Practice of Representation.” Cultural Studies 5.1 (January 1991): 52–60.
Garnham, N., and R. Williams. “Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture: An Introduction.” Media, Culture and Society 2 (1980): 209–223.
Gottdiener, M. “Hegemony and Mass Culture: A Semiotic Approach.” The American Journal of Sociology 90.5 (1985): 979–1001.
Jameson, Fredric. “On Cultural Studies.” Social Text 34 (1993): 17–52.
Lucas, Brad. “Near Collisions: Rhetorical Cultural Studies or a Cultural Rhetorical Studies?” Rev. of At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies , edited by Thomas Rosteck. Postmodern Culture 10.2 (2000).
Peck, Janice. “Itinerary of a Thought: Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies, and the Unresolved Problem of the Relation of Culture to ‘Not Culture.’” Cultural Critique 48 (Spring 2001): 200–249.
Petrey, Sandy. “When Did Literature Stop Being Cultural?” Diacritics 28.3 (1998): 12–22.

Said, Edward. “Third World Intellectuals and Metropolitan Culture.” Raritan 9.3 (1990): 27–50.

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Shiach, Morag. “‘Cultural studies’ and the Work of Pierre Bourdieu.” French Cultural Studies 4.12 (1993): 213–221.
Traube, Elizabeth G. “‘The Popular’ in American Culture.” Annual Review of Anthropology 25 (1996): 127–151.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. “Culture as the Ideological Background of the Modern World System.” Theory, Culture and Society 7.2–3 (1990): 31–55.
Wood, Brennon. “Stuart Hall’s Cultural Studies and the Problem of Hegemony.” The British Journal of Sociology 49.3 (1998): 399–414.

Unit 3

Required Readings
Mulvey, Laura.
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Screen Vol. 16, No. 3: 6-18, 1975.
Supplementary Readings

Unit 3: Classic Examples
Books and Articles in Anthologies

Barthes, Roland. “The World of Wrestling.” Mythologies. Trans. Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. 15–25.
Brantlinger, Patrick. Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Fiske, John. Television Culture. London: Routledge, 1987.
Foucault, Michel. “Part One: We ‘Other Victorians.’” The History of Sexuality, Vol. I . Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage, 1990. 1–13.
Grossberg, Lawrence. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992.
See especially the Introduction and Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 11.
Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technlogy and Socialist Feminism in the Late 20th Century.” Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. London: Free Association, 1991. 149–182.
Nelson, Cary. “Literature as Cultural Studies.” Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies. Ed. Cary Nelson and Dilip P. Gaonkar. New York: Routledge, 1996. 63–102.
Storey, John. Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life. London: Arnold, 1999.
Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. London: Penguin, 1991.
Williams, Raymond. Towards 2000. London: Chatto & Windus, 1983.
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Williams, Raymond. The Long Revolution. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1975.

Journal Articles

Currie, Dawn H. “Decoding Femininity: Advertisements and Their Teenage Readers.” Gender and Society 11.4 (1997): 453–477.
DeKoven, Marianne. “Cultural Dreaming and Cultural Studies.” New Literary History 27.1 (1996): 127–144.
Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock. “Fear of Formalism: Kant, Twain, and Cultural Studies in American Literature.” Diacritics 27.4 (1997): 46–69.
Driscoll, Catherine. “The Moving Ground: Locating Everyday Life.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 100. 2 (2001): 381–398.
Feld, Steven. “Notes on World Beat.” Public Culture 1.1 (1988): 31–37.
Finnegan, Jim. “Theoretical Tailspins: Reading ‘Alternative’ Performance in Spin Magazine.” Postmodern Culture 10.1 (1999).

Frith, Simon and Angela McRobbie.  “Rock and Sexuality.” Screen Education 29 (1978): 3–19.

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Grossberg, Lawrence. “The In-Difference of Television.” Screen 28.2 (1987): 28–45. 
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Grossberg, Lawrence.

“Wandering Audiences, Nomadic Critics.” Cultural Studies 2.3 (1988): 377–391.

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McRobbie, Angela and Sarah L. Thornton. “Rethinking ‘Moral Panic’ for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds.” The British Journal of Sociology 46.4 (1995): 559–574.
Mittell, Jason. “A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory.” Cinema Journal 40.3 (2001): 3–24.
Perez, Vincent. “Movies, Marxism, and Jim Crow: Richard Wright’s Cultural Criticism.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 43.2 (2001): 142–168.
Preston, Cathy Lynn. “‘The Tying of the Garter’: Representations of the Female Rural Laborer in 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century English Bawdy Songs.” The Journal of American Folklore 105.417 (1992): 315–341.
Sprinker, Michael. “We Lost It at the Movies.” MLN 112.3 (1997): 385–399.

Unit 4

Required Readings
Kahn, Richard and Douglas Kellner.
"Internet Subcultures and Oppositional Politics."
McRobbie, Angela.
"Post-Feminism and Popular Culture." Feminist Media Studies Vol. 4, No. 3, 2004.
Fenton, Natalie.
"Bridging the Mythical Divide: Political Economy and Cultural Studies Approaches to the Analysis of the Media."

In Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates. SAGE Publications Ltd., 2007.
Supplementary Readings

Unit 4: Current Trends and New Directions
Books and Articles in Anthologies

Bhabha, Homi. “Signs Taken for Wonders.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 1167–1184.
Textbook for the course.
Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium. New York: Guildford Press, 2001.
Morrison, Toni. “Playing in the Dark.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 1005–1016.
Textbook for the course.
Pevere, Geoff, and Greig Dymond. Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall, 1996.
See, in particular, “New Disorder: Kids in the Hall,” “TV Nation: SCTV,” and “From the Hip: Pierre Trudeau’s Rule of Cool.”
San Juan, E., Jr. Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression: Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. Albany: State University of New York, 1995.
See, in particular, “Chapter 8: History and Representation: Symbolizing the Asian Diaspora in the United States,” “Chapter 9: Beyond Postmodernism: Notes on ‘Third World’ Discourses of Resistance,” and “Chapter 10: Multiculturalism and the Challenge of World Cultural Studies.”

Journal Articles

Bongie, Chris. “Exiles on Main Stream: Valuing the Popularity of Postcolonial Literature.” Postmodern Culture 14.1 (2003).
Chabram, A.

“Chican/o Studies as Oppositional Ethnography.” Cultural Studies 4.3 (1990): 228–247.

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Chambers, I.

“A Miniature History of the Walkman.” New Formations 11 (1990): 1–4.

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Das Gupta, Monisha. “What Is Indian about You?”: A Gendered, Transnational Approach to Ethnicity.” Gender and Society 11.5 (1997): 572–596.
de Lauretis, Teresa.

“Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities—An Introduction.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 3.2 (1991): iii–xviii.

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During, Simon Christopher. "Popular Culture on a Global Scale: A Problem for Cultural Studies?” Critical Inquiry 23.4 (1997): 808–834.
Harootunian, Harry D., and Naoki Sakai. “Japan Studies and Cultural Studies.” positions: east asia cultures critique 7.2 (1999): 593–647.
Henderson, Mae. “Where, By the Way, Is This Train Going?”: A Case for Black (Cultural) Studies.” Callaloo 19.1 (1996): 60–67.
Lubiano, Wahneema H. “Mapping the Interstices Between Afro-American Cultural Discourse and Cultural Studies: A Prolegomenon.” Callaloo 19.1 (1996): 68–77.
Maira, Sunaina. “Henna and Hip Hop: The Politics of Cultural Production and the Work of Cultural Studies.” Journal of Asian American Studies 3.3 (2000): 329–369.
Traister, Bryce. “Academic Viagra: The Rise of American Masculinity Studies.” American Quarterly 52.2 (2000): 274–304.
Van den Abbeele, Georges. “Theory and the ‘Chunnel’: Cultural Studies and the Retreat of Ideology.” symploke 11.1 (2003): 77–95.
Warren, Catherine A. “A Fertile Grounding: Cultural Studies Meets Women’s Health.” NWSA Journal 12.3 (2000): 178–192.
White, Geoffrey M., and Ty Kawika Tengan. “Disappearing Worlds: Anthropology and Cultural Studies in Hawai’i and the Pacific.” The Contemporary Pacific 13.2 (2001): 381–416.
Wood, Houston. “Cultural Studies for Oceania.” The Contemporary Pacific 15.2 (2003): 340–374.