Course Schedule

Introduction
R 8.18
Introduction

T 8.23
Reading: Storey, "Introduction"

W 8.24 Last day for registration

R 8.25
Reading: Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Straw "The Thingishness of Things"

T 8.30
Olalquiaga, "The Intoxication of Modernity", Lukas and Albini, from Inconspicuous Consumption
Response Due

R 9.1
Weschler, "Inhaling the Spore", the MJT homepage (http://www.mjt.org), and WunderKammer (http://www.webwunderkammer.com)

Television
T 9.6
Reading: Storey, "Television" (9)

R 9.8
Freaks and Geeks, Interview with Paul Feig
Response Due

T 9.13
from Fiske's Reading Television (no class)

R 9.15
from Fiske's Reading Television

Fiction
T 9.20
Reading: Storey, "Fiction" (29), Clowes' Ghost World
Paper #1 Due

R 9.22
McGrath, "Not Funnies", Clowes' Ghost World

T 9.27
Auster's City of Glass
Response Due

R 9.29
Auster's City of Glass, Lavender, "The Novel of Critical Engagement"

T 10.4
Midterm

W 10.5 Last day to withdraw with a W

10.5-10.9 Fall Vacation

Film
T 10.11
Chinatown, Storey, "Film" (54), Eaton, from Chinatown

R 10.13
Maxfield, "The Injustice of it all", Chinatown screenplay
Response Due

T 10. 18
Carringer, "Hollywood's Los Angeles: Two Paradigms"

R 10.20
David Thomson, "Uneasy Street"

Music
T 10.25
Reading: Storey, "Popular Music" (93)

R 10.27
Shuker, "Every I's a Winner: The Music Industry"

F 10.28
Paper #2 Due

T 11.1
Callahan's "Speaking of Music"

R 11.3
Taylor's "Music, Technology, Agency, and Practice"
Response Due

Everyday Life
T 11.8
Storey, "The Consumption of Everyday Life" (113), Gibian, "Shopping Center Spaces"

R 11.10
Eisenbeis, "Mall of the Wild", Gibian "The Art of Being Off-Center"

T 11.15
Shefrin, "Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and participatory fandom"

R 11.17
Penley, "Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Study of Popular Culture"
Response Due

11.22-11.27 Thanksgiving Vacation

T 11.29
Kipnis, "(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler"

R 12. 1
Final Paper Due In Class
Last Day of Classes