begins:             feb 26, 2018

ends:                june 26, 2018

withdrawals:   may 10, 2018

schedule:        tue/thu 10:10-11:35am

                                        03:35-05:05pm

room:               c18

The course Topics in Anglo-American Culture is an introduction to just a small part of the breath and width of the world of Anglo-American culture. Every semester we focus on a different set of issues like music, film, culture(s), minorities, gender, etc., and look at them from a cultural studies perspective to discuss and understand their political, economic, and social dimensions and/or relevance.

1. ‣syllabus 2018A
   

2. ‣cultural objects analysis
   

3. ‣elements of cinematography
   

4. ‣how to prepare readings for class
   

5. ‣videos

[course info semester A2018]                                                                                                                                    

unit 2| films and US culture

1. ‣Schatz, Thomas. "Seismic Shifts in the American Film Industry."  The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film. Ed. Roy Grundmann Cynthia Lucia, and Art Simon: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012.
   

unit 3| US politics in film

1. ‣Kellner, Douglas. "Hollywood Cinema Wars in the 2000s."  Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era. 2010. 240-61. LINK
   

2. ‣Totman, Sally-Ann. How Hollywood Projects Foreign Policy. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. pp 33-50 LINK
   

unit 4| economic changes and class structure in the US

1. ‣Davis, Gerald F. "The Rise and Fall of Finance and the End of the Society of Organizations." Academy of Management Perspectives  (2009): 27-44.
   

2. ‣Nace, Ted. Gangs of America. The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy. 2003: 211-220 LINK
   

unit 5|ideology

1. ‣Green, Philip. "Ideology and Ambiguity in Cinema." The Massachusetts Review 34.1 (1993): 102-26.
   

2. ‣Woodard, Colin. "A Geography Lesson for the Tea Party." Washington Monthly 2011. LINK
   

unit 6|the place of technology in US society

1. ‣Mattie, Sean. "Wall-E on the Problem of Technology." Perspectives on Political Science 43 (2014): 12-20.

1. ‣the academy of motion pictures
   

2. ‣american film institute
   

3. ‣cineaste
   

4. ‣david bordwell’s essays on films
   

5. ‣film noir studies
   

6. ‣filmmaker magazine
   

7. ‣images
   

8. ‣internet movie database
   

9. ‣rotten tomatoes
   

10. ‣screening the past
    

11. ‣thompson on hollywood
    

12. ‣a glossary of film terms
    

13. ‣language of film

1. ‣ larry wilson’s war (2007) dir. mike nichols
   

2. ‣ fun with dick and jane (2005) dir. dean parisot
   

3. ‣ captain fantastic (2016) dir. matt ross
   

4. ‣ wall-e (2008) dir. andrew stanton