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Colloquium Series Spring 1995
Levis Faculty Center Monday 8:00 pm |
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| 6 February |
Cameron McCarthy |
Curriculum and Instruction: "Danger in the Safety Zone: Notes on Race, Resentment, and the Discourse of Crime, Violence, and Urban Security" |
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Respondents: |
Craig Fischer English
Michael Lacy Speech Communication |
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Background Reading: |
Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture, Ch. 12
Adolphus Reed, "The Urban Underclass as Myth and Symbol: The Poverty of the Discourse about Poverty" |
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| 6 March |
Michael Bérubé |
English: "Entertaining Cultural Criticism" |
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Respondents: |
Janet Smarr Comparative Literature
Michael Thurston English |
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Background Reading: |
Simon Frith, "Saving Popular Culture from the Populists"
Jan Mukarovsky, Aesthetic Function, Norm, and Value as Social Facts (selections) |
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| 3 April |
Synthia Slowikowski |
Kinesiology: "Physcial Culture as Museum: Curating Among the Ruins of Ancient Greece" |
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Respondents: |
Edward Bruner Anthropology
Charles Springwood Sociology & Anthropology, Illinois Wesleyan |
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Background Reading: |
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture, Introduction and Ch. 1 |
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| 1 May |
Ramona Curry |
English and Women's Studies: "Early German Cinema, Commerce, and Nationalism: The Rise of a Film Industry during World War I" |
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Respondents: |
Peter Fritzsche History
Angharad Valdivia Communications Research |
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Background Reading: |
Thomas Elsaesser, "The Institution of Cinema: Industry, Commodity, Audiences"
Miriam Hansen, "Early Cinema: Whose Public Sphere?"
Rgoer Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, The German Cinema, Ch. 1
Judith Mayne, Cinema and Spectatorship (selections) |