POP CULTURE

P O P   V I D E O S

• INTRODUCTION to POP CULTURE:   what is it?

• high culture vs. pop culture 

• Ramsey Clark: "world domination"

• FILM CLIPS: Course Overview

• (A)     MEDIA ANALYSIS, ICONS,  & SEMIOTICS    What are 'barenaked ladies'?

• (B)    THE RITUALS of CULTURE 

• PPT: Icons 

• PPT: Advertising 

• FILM: Fame in the 20th Century (Clive James)

• FILM: McLuhan's Wake

• (A)     HISTORY of POPULAR MUSIC    Tupac is alive and well and living in Kalamazoo  

• (B)     GENDER, RACE, CLASS & POP CULTURE   

• FILM presentation: History of Rock

• FILM: Rhyme Pays

• FILM: Hip Hop Immortals

• (A)     HOLLYWOODISM, part 1    Truth, Justice, and the American way?  

• (B)     CONSUMERISM & POP CULTURE  

• PPT: "The Big Six"

• FILM: Hollywoodism (Simcha Jacobovici, Neal Gabler)  

• FILM: The New Hollywood (Tom Brokaw)

• (A)    HOLLYWOODISM, part 2      The Great White Way

• (B)    RACISM & POP CULTURE  

• FILM: Classified X (Melvin Van Peebles)

•   http://weeklywire.com/ww/09-14-98/nash_film-video.html

• FILM: Race: The Power of an Illusion

• (A)    ART, part 1     Soupcan or masterpiece?

• (B)    ART, part 2    Resistance art: your graffiti is my paycheque.

• FILM: Art of the Western World: In Our Own Time (Michael Wood) 

• FILM: Walls for Change: Resistance Art

 

Week 7

MID-TERM TEST

Mid-Term Test

Week 9

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Gender Gender, Race, & Class

• (A)    GENDER

• (B)    GENDER & POP CULTURE    Misogyny in art and popular culture 

• (C)     What is Misandry? Is this for real?

• PPT: GENDER IN MOVIES AND ADVERTISING

• FILM: BOOBS IN TOYLAND

• FILM: Toying with their Future 

• FILM: Beyond Killing Us Softly

• FILM: Tough Guise (Sut Jhally, Jackson Katz)

 

Week 10

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Consumerism: The Corporation

• The Corporation: What is a "legal person"?

• FILM: The Corporation

• (A)      ADVERTISING  The Tower of Babel and the Shocking Truth

• (B)      CONSUMERISM revisited

• (C)      SHOCK ADVERTISING

• FILM: The Fine Art of Separating People from their Money (Hermann Vaske)

• FILM: The Selling Game http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/sellinggame/video.html

 

Week 12

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Television & Consumerism

• (A)    TELEVISION  Ryan Seacrest's Free Lunch

• (B)    TV: The Messenger          

• FILM: The Tube is Reality 

 

Week 13

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Militarism & the Media

• FILM: Why We Fight

• FILM: High Crimes and Misdemeanors

• FILM: Our Friend Saddam

• FILM: Bowling for Columbine

• FILM: Reporting America at War

• FILM: Enemy Image

•  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVSsqaU2XN4&mode=related&search=

 

Week 14

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Conspiracy Theories Exam Preview

• FILM: Zwicker:   the Great Deception

• FILM: Did We Land on the Moon?

• FILM CLIPS: The JFK Assassination, Diana Conspiracies, Elvis, Tupac & Biggie

 

Week 15

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Exam