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120691 PS Proseminar Cultural and Media Studies (2018W)

American Popular Culture in the 19th Century

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 09.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 16.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 23.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 30.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 06.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 13.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 20.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 27.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 04.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 11.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 08.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 15.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 22.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 29.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This class explores 19th century popular cultures in the United States, with a particular focus on performance cultures. We will begin by asking ourselves what it is that makes cultural practices popular, and we will also discuss the challenges of studying such popular culture historically. We will then look at specific formations of popular culture such as the early national and antebellum theater, the sentimental novel, early celebrity culture, blackface minstrelsy, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, or the Barnum & Bailey Circus; throughout, we will explore how these popular cultural practices negotiated shifting ideas of race, class, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, region and nation. We will also critically discuss how such popular cultural practices were used to legitimize and/or question race-based slavery and segregation, the genocide of Native American populations, as well as the “cultures of U.S. imperialism” (Amy Kaplan). Finally, we will examine the legacies of these popular cultural practices and the ways in which they still haunt American culture today.

Throughout the course, we will also be concerned with questions of cultural theory and method, as well as with paper writing skills.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Regular attendance (max. 2 absences), active participation in class, expert session, paper proposal and annotated bibliography, proseminar paper

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Active class participation (10%)
Expert session (15%)
Paper proposal and annotated bibliography (15%)
Proseminar paper (60%)

You need to complete all requirements to complete the course. The overall grading scheme is (1): 100-91%, (2): 90-81%, (3): 80-71%, (4): 70-61%, (5): 60-0%

Prüfungsstoff

n/a

Literatur

You need to buy/borrow the following books/films:

Larry McMurtry, The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (please get the Oxford World’s Classics edition)
Spike Lee, Bamboozled (film, 2000)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: BA 612;
Code/Modul: BA09.1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-4040

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33