POPULAR CULTURE MA COMP EXAM READING LIST FOUNDATIONS OF CULTURAL THEORY

Common Ground: Keywords for the Study of Expressive Culture, special issue of Journal of American Folklore. 108.430 (1995). (Available on JSTOR)

Adorno, Theodor. “On Popular Music.” K; S [orig. 1941]

Adorno, Theodor & Horkheimer, Max. “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” [Orig. German 1944, trans. Dialectic of Enlightenment 1972] D; K

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” [Orig. French; trans. 1971] S;K

Anderson, Benedict. Chapters 1 through 3, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991. 1-46.

Ang, Ien. Watching Dallas. Methuen. 1985.

Appaduri, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” D; K [Orig. Public Culture, 1990]

Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Carnival and Carnivalesque.” S [Orig. Russian 1963; trans. in Bakhtin, The Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, 1984; summary of 1940 Russian dissertation pub. 1965 & trans. as Rabelais and his World, 1968]

Barthes, Roland. “Myth Today.” Mythologies. Trans. Jonathan Cape. Paris: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972, 109-160. [Orig. French 1957; trans. 1972] Selections in Storey Reader, 293-302; and KeyWorks, 100-106

Baudrillard, Jean. “The Precession of Simulacra.” Simulations. New York: Semiotext(e), 1983, 1-80. [Orig. French; trans. 1983] K; S

Ben-Amos, Dan. “Analytical Categories and Ethnic Genres.” In Dan Ben-Amos, ed., Folklore Genres. University of Texas. 1981.

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” [Orig. 1936; In Illuminations, Schocken, 1969] D; K

Bordo, Susan. “Material Girl: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture.” Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 245-276.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Pierre Bourdieu, “Distinction,” and “The Aristocracy of Culture,” Distinctions. [Orig. French 1979; trans. 1984] D; K

Butler, Judith. “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.” In Fuss, Diana, ed., Inside Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories. Taylor & Francis. 1992. S

Canclini, Nestor Garcia. “Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers.” K [Trans. in Canclini, Hybrid Cultures, U of Minnesota P, 1995]

Cawelti, John. “The Study of Literary Formulas.” Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. 5-36.

Clifford, James. “Diasporas.” Cultural Anthropology 9.3 (1994): 302-38.

Conquergood, Dwight. “Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research.” The Performance Studies Reader. 2nd Edition. Ed. Henry Bial. London: Routledge, 2007. 369-380.

De Certeau, Michel. “Introduction.” The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. by Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California, 1984. [Orig. French 1980] S

Dyer, Richard. Excerpt from Stars.

Fine, Elizabeth. Soulstepping: African American Step Shows. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Fiske, John. “The Popular Economy.” Television Culture. New York: Routledge, 1987. 253-67. S

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. I. New York: Vintage, 1990. [Orig. French 1976; trans. 1978]

Gates, Henry Louis. "The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning." The Signifying Monkey: a Theory of African- American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. 44-88.

Geertz, Clifford. “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight.” The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973. 3-32.

Geertz, Clifford. “Thick Description: Towards an Interpretative Theory of Culture.” The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973. 412-454.

Gramsci, Antonio. “Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State” [orig. Italian 1926-1937; tran. as Selections from Prison Notebooks. 1971] S; K

Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Trans. Thomas Burger. Boston: The MIT Press, 1991. [Orig. German 1962; trans. 1989]

Hall, Stuart. “Encoding, Decoding.” D; K [orig. 1980]

Hall, Stuart. “Notes on Deconstructing ‘The Popular.’” K [orig. 1981]

Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. Ed. Amelia Jones. New York: Routledge, 2003. 475-496. D

Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: the Meaning of Style. London: Routledge, 1979.

Hobsbawm, Eric. “Introduction: Inventing Traditions.” In Invention of Tradition. Eds. Eric Hodsbawm and Terence Ranger. New York: Cambridge UP, 2003 [1983]. 1-14.

Hooks, Bell. “Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination.” Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992. 165-176.

Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.” K [Orig. New Left Review, 1984]

Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. "Objects of Ethnography." In Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 17-78.

Lacan, Jacques. “The Mirror Stage.” [Orig. French 1949; trans. 1977] S

Levine, Lawrence. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988.

Levi-Strauss, Claude. “The Structural Study of Myth.” Structural Anthropology. Vol. 1. Trans. Clair Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Shoepf. New York: Basic, 1963 [Orig. French, 1955]. 206-231.

Lord, Albert. Chapters 1-3. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964. 3-67.

Marx, Karl. “Base and Superstructure.” S [Orig. 1859]

Marx, Karl, and Engels, Frederick. “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas.” S; K [Orig. 1845]

Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasures.” K [Orig. Screen, 1975]

Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Trans. Laurence Scott. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1968.

Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Revised Edition. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Rose, Tricia. “Never Trust A Big Butt and A Smile.” Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory, #23, May 1991. 108-131. [Also in: Black Feminist Cultural Criticism. Ed. Jacqueline Bobo. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2001. 233-254]

Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” Pleasure and Danger. Ed. Carole Vance. London: Pandora, 1992 [orig. 1984]. 267-293.

Said, Edward. “Introduction.” Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. 1-28.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Introduction: Axiomatic.” Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 1-65.

Gayatri Spivak. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Eds. Cary Nelson and Larry Grossberg. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. 271-313.

Tomlinson, John. Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Turner, Victor. “Liminality and Communitas.” The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti- Structure. New York: Cornell University Press, 1977 [Orig. 1969]. 94-130

Van Gennep, Arnold. The Rites of Passage. Chicago: The University of Chicago press, 1961.

Weber, Max. “The Protestant Ethic and the ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism.” The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism and Other Writings. New York: Penguin Books, 2002 [Orig. 1905]. 1-202.

Williams, Linda. “When the Woman Looks”. Horror: the Film Reader. Ed. Mark Jancovich. New York: Routledge, 2001. 61-66.

Williams, Raymond. “The Analysis of Culture.” [Orig. 1961] S

D Reprinted or excerpted in Simon During, ed., The Cultural Studies Reader, 3rd ed. (London: Routledge, 2007)

K Reprinted or excerpted in Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks, Revised Edition, ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006)

S Reprinted or excerpted in John Storey, ed., Cultural Theory & Popular Culture: A Reader, 3rd ed. (NY: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006)