2008-09 BM2 Tutorials

Tutorials following the lecture:

1 Oct. 15, 2008 Course Outline

2 Dec. 10, 2008 The History and Politics of the Academy Awards

Material: Choose one film and follow its story. Media attention. Who won which Oscar for what? And who did not? Discuss why.

3 Oct. 22, 2008 From Anglo Saxon Raids to Global Anglophone Culture

4 Oct. 29, 2008 Harbingers of Freedom, Democracy and Civil Rights?

Material: Sojourner Truth "Ain't I a Woman?" --> Intersectionality: Human Rights + Women's Rights + Afro-American Rights

5 Nov. 05, 2007 Religion

6 Nov. 13, 2008 An Economic History of the English speaking World

Material : maybe caricatures/posters etc. from different eras commenting on the economic development like [1] --> economic development for whom? And who's excluded? (Social) consequences of industrial revolution, globalization ...

7 Nov. 19, 2008 Technology and Knowledge

8 Nov. 26, 2008 Media and the Public

9 Dec. 03, 2008 Media Audiences

Maybe something on theater actors and actresses: Who is when allowed to play which (gender) role. From all-men to all-women casts in English theatres in the 17th century (cp. Straub and Trumbach in Epstein/Straub: Guarded Bodies, also Greenblatt "Fiction and Friction")

10 Dec. 17, 2009 Cultural Indicators: Crime

Maybe something on "Hate Crimes"?

e.g. Brandon Teena (see Sloop: Brandon Teena, Public Representation, and Normativity" in Disciplining Gender) --> documentary + Hollywood + print media: Which stories are told by whom? (Could also work for one of the Media sessions 7/8

11 Jan. 07, 2009 The Construct(edness) of Traditions

12 Jan. 14, 2009 Written Test

13 Jan. 21, 2009 Cultural Icon(s)/Iconology

14 Jan. 28, 2009 Feedback on Test and Look Ahead