Cultural Studies: An Introduction

Letras Modernas Inglesas / 2018-1 / Facultad de Filosofa y Letras / UNAM

Literature Seminar

Mtra. Lola Hrner

Presentation and Methodology

Class, gender, race, ideology, capital, power, identity, culture During this seminar,

students are expected to become familiar with the interdisciplinary approach proposed by

the British Cultural Studies in the sixties that has since then reached Literature departments

all over the world. By reviewing some of the classic authors (such as Raymond Williams

and Stuart Hall) as well as recent approximations to the field, we will discuss the

possibilities of reading a variety of texts (both canonical and popular) from a distinct point

of view in which the context is key for interpretation.

Each session a theoretical text will be read, as well as a cultural product (a poem, a

short story, a song or a movie) in order to incorporate the Cultural Studies approach to the

analysis. The student must deliver a written piece (at least four during the semester) in

which he or she relates the cultural studies framework and the product.

For the final paper, each student is expected to choose an example in contemporary

culture to apply one of the theoretical perspectives reviewed during the seminar.

Syllabus

Date Theoretical Text Cultural Product Speakers

8/23 Introduction ********************** ****************
8/30 An Introduction to Cultural ********************** Diana Garca
Studies (Chris Barker) Irma Vargas
Carlos Cueto
9/6 The Analysis of Culture Lady Lazarus. Mad Men. Natalia Contreras
(Raymond Williams) (Dir. Phil Abraham) Roberto Villan
9/13 Cultural Studies and Its Too Loud: Jennifer Weiner Luca Morales
 Theoretical Legacies (Stuart Hall) (Anne Helen Petersen) Itzel Molina
9/20 The Work of Representation Assasins. The Crown. (Dir. Ximena Daz
(Stuart Hall) Benjamin Caron) Luis Cullar
9/27 The Young Audience (Stuart Hall Across the Universe (Dir. Fernanda Garca
and Paddy Whannel) Julie Taymor) Salma Vzquez
10/4 Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: Affection, At The Tolstoy Mirna Martnez
Linguistic Turn in Cultural Museum (Donald
Alejandra Cuevas
Studies (Chris Barker) Barthelme)
10/11 Method. The History of Sexuality Rape: A Love Story (Joyce Yetzi Corts Flores
Vol. 1 (Michel Foucault) Carol Oates) Renata Muoz
Joel Villegas
10/18 The Myth Today (Roland Birdman (Alejandro Carlo Castaeda
Barthes) Gonzlez Irritu) Luca Navarro
10/25 Feminist Approaches to Popular The Cinderella Waltz (Ann Carolina Ulloa
Culture (Lana F. Rakow) Beattie), Horsie (Dorothy Pamela Aguilar
Parker)
11/8 Subjects of Sex, Gender, Desire The Moons of Jupiter Elisa Magaa
(Judith Butler) (Alice Munro) Estefana
Arozamena
11/15 A Revolution of Values: The Entering Into The Serpent Gabriela Arcega
Promise of Multicultural Change La herencia de Coatlicue.
(bell hooks) Borderlands (Gloria Claudio
Anzalda)
11/22 What Is This Black in Black Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Vernica
Popular Culture? (Stuart Hall) Hernndez
Alejandro Bravo

11/29 Scattered Speculations on the Sons and Other Flammable Daniela Ramrez
Question of Cultural Studies Objects (Porochista
Viridiana
(Gayatri Chakavotri Spivak) Khakpour) Verazaluce
Extra The Postcolonial and The Mariana Oliart
Postmodern: The Question of Sebastan Novoa
Agency (Hommi K. Bhabha)

References

Barker, Chris. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. Great Britain: Sage Publications,

2008.

During, Simon (ed). The Cultural Studies Reader. Great Britain: Routdlege, 1999.

Hall, Stuart. Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices. Great Britain: Sage

Publications, Open University Press, 1997.

Storey, John (ed). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. US: Routledge, 2009.