Difference between revisions of "2008-09 BM2: Session 9"

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==Justice==
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Media realities, media identities; the Vietnam War as the first "living-room" war; creating political identities in/on Anglo-American film and TV landscapes; globally circulating media; media culture as national culture? Trans-cultural media studies; globalization and media: world widely circulating media; The Internet; or medial globalization; cultural imperialism; public viewings; Media and gender: Reproduction of gender (and other) stereotypes via media; gendered ways of consuming/using/producing media.
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Cultural constructions of difference(s); production of meaning; examples: the rise of talk shows, soap operas (from vaudeville to today), sitcoms (e.g. ''The Nanny'' and questions of ethnicity and last week I watched an episode where homo/heterosexuality and religion were quite important) and reality-TV shows - TVsites of (cultural) 'education';
  
Differences between Anglo-Saxon and continental European Countries. Capital Punishment in the US, Vigilantism… Great Britain and civil rights. A country which embraces surveillance. Crime and corruption as special topics. Legal institutions the Anglos Saxon Sphere exported and special situations it protected.
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Not sure where to put it: Sports as cultural practice, also spectatorship/fandom in sports (also music), athletes as cultural icons? (David Beckham)
Debates about same-sex marriage etc.
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==Crossing Borders==
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colonization decolonization; postcolonial theory/literature; new English literature(s), intersectionality (example: Sojourner Truth(1797-1883):"Ain't I A Woman?" 1851.)
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Latest revision as of 18:46, 14 July 2008

Media realities, media identities; the Vietnam War as the first "living-room" war; creating political identities in/on Anglo-American film and TV landscapes; globally circulating media; media culture as national culture? Trans-cultural media studies; globalization and media: world widely circulating media; The Internet; or medial globalization; cultural imperialism; public viewings; Media and gender: Reproduction of gender (and other) stereotypes via media; gendered ways of consuming/using/producing media. Cultural constructions of difference(s); production of meaning; examples: the rise of talk shows, soap operas (from vaudeville to today), sitcoms (e.g. The Nanny and questions of ethnicity and last week I watched an episode where homo/heterosexuality and religion were quite important) and reality-TV shows - TVsites of (cultural) 'education';

Not sure where to put it: Sports as cultural practice, also spectatorship/fandom in sports (also music), athletes as cultural icons? (David Beckham)