2017-2018-1

TO-ANGT601-10

_Előadás, _Kollokvium

TO-ANGT6, Culture/History Course

TO-ANGT6, Culture Survey Course

Angol-Amerikai Intézet (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

heti 2.00

3

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This course introduces the diversity of approaches to the study of popular culture. It offers an awareness of cultural studies as a discipline in its own right, and contrasts this with other approaches drawn from different disciplinary foundations. It explores how different backgrounds and methodologies change our notions of what popular, mass, folk, and subculture versus high culture, arts should consist of as well as the various political implications of such distinctions. At the same time we shall also address the issues of popular culture as post-modern culture and as globalization, with a particular focus on further internal differentiations of popular versus unpopular form of cultural production. By the end of the course students should develop an awareness of different theoretical approaches to (the invention of) popular culture, namely the changes in the various intellectual discourses that articulate the distinctions. At the same time students will also acquire the ability to evaluate and analyze texts critically in relation to their social embeddedness, and to identify the key concerns in the debates around the emerging range of meanings of ‘popular’ culture and their ‘ordinary’ audiences.