Hafta 1
Introduction: Screening: Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty, 1922, Revillon Frères)
Hafta 2
Studying Culture: Gupta, Akhil & James Ferguson (1997). “After Peoples and Cultures” in Eds. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson, Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology pp. 1-30. London: Duke University Press.
Hafta 3
Clock for Religion: Smith, Mark M (1997). “Time in African American Work and Culture” in Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery and Freedom in the American South, pp. 129-152. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press. White, John (1983). “Veiled Testimony: Negro Spirituals and the Slave Experience”, Journal of American Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2: pp. 251-263.
Hafta 4
“Hard Times, Modern Times”: Barnard, Rita (1995). “Part I: Context” in The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing Nathanael West and Mass Culture in the 1930s, pp.3-40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hafta 5
Framing America: Levine, Lawrence W. (1993). “The Historian and Icon: Photography and the History of the American People in the 1930s and 1940s”, in The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History, pp. 256-290. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Broadcasting Nation: Hilmes, Michele (1997). “Radiating Culture”, in Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922-1952, pp. 1-33. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Berg, Gertrude & Robert Harris (1954). “A Sad Day”, The Goldbergs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgiYXIUG5eg
Hafta 7
Class Revised: Jackson, Mark Allan (2008). “Busted, Disgusted, Down and Out: Documenting the Stories of America’s Agricultural Workers”, in Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie, pp. 48-92. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. Guthrie, Woody (1997). “This Land is Your Land”, This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol 1. https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZjrfGcb3A2PMGA1vRNgSk?si=fa3098b6351641bb
Hafta 8
Screening: To be announced
Hafta 9
Radical Documentary: Scott, MacDonald (2013). “Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Sensory Ethnography” in American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary, pp. 634-679. London: University of California Press.
Hafta 10
An American Dream: Baldwin, James (2011). “Chapter One: Congo Square” in The Devil Finds Work: An Essay, pp. 12-74. New York: Vintage International.
Hafta 11
Cold War and Modern Art: Genter, Robert (2011). “Masculinity, Spontaneity, and the Act: The Bodily Ego of Jasper Johns” in Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America, pp. 197-235. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Hafta 12
Repositioning Identity: Diaz, Junot (1997). “Drown” in Drown, pp. 91-107. NYC: Riverhead Books. Caminero-Santangelo, Marta (2016). “The Caribbean Difference: Imagining Trans-Status Communities” in Documenting the Undocumented: Latino/a Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper, pp. 107-148.
Hafta 13
Queer Activism: Diedrich, Lisa (2016). “Doing Queer Love” in Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism pp. 17-44. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Berlant, Lauraen and Michael Warner, (1998). “Sex in Public”, Critical Inquiry 24: 547-566.
Hafta 14
Film Round Table Screening: To be announced