AJ57014 Topics in American Culture: Cultural Politics and Political Cultures of the United States

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2017
Rozsah
0/2/0. 7 kr. (plus 3 za zk). Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
doc. Jeffrey Alan Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
každý sudý pátek 10:50–12:25 G32
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Cíle předmětu
This course examines various events and episodes in the interaction between culture and politics in America. Likely topics include the origins and emergence of distinctive regional cultures; the political orientations and conflicts associated with these; neoclassical influences on the American Founding; the “Lost Cause” and other mythologies of the American South; shifts and transfers of cultural authority among various cultural “capitals” (Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas); ethnic cultures, their artistic expressions and their influences on the mainstream; the reception and differing uses of Shakespeare in America; attempts to define and mark distinctions between “highbrow,” “lowbrow” and “middlebrow” cultural styles; challenges to prevailing cultural authority in the works of various artists and artistic movements; and the conflicts and “moral panics” brought on by the rise of popular and mass media (the “penny press,” movies, advertising, television, rock music, the internet, etc.).
Výstupy z učení
Students will be able to locate current events and controversies in America within a longer history of such controversies, and to analyze them in terms of regional differences and underlying cultural and political dynamics.
Osnova
  • WEEK 1: Neoclassicism, the American “Renaissance,” and the quest for a national cultural identity
  • WEEK 2: Cultural regions, the South, and southern mythmaking
  • WEEK 3: Cultural hierarchies and terms of value
  • WEEK 4: Cultural mainstreams, minorities, and countercultures (I): The new aesthetics
  • WEEK 5: Cultural mainstreams, minorities, and countercultures (II): Moral panics and “culture wars”
Výukové metody
Lecture / discussion, readings, film and video viewings.
Metody hodnocení
Final exam, 100%, to be scheduled. Re-sit would be an essay assignment.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
http://tinyurl.com/CulturalPoliticsUS
All assigned readings and film/video viewings will be posted at that web address.
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Předmět je vyučován jednou za dva roky.
This course is NOT designated for Erasmus students! List of courses offerd by the Department of English and American studies for Erasmsus students is available at http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/ under "Information for Erasmus students".
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2019.