Media and Cultural Studies:

Concepts, Traditions and Currents

Ph.Dr. Jiřina Šmejkalová, CSc.

BIBLIOGRAPHY – FURTHER READING

Alasuutari, P. (1995) Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies. London: Sage.

Altick, R. D. (1967) The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800–1900. Chicago: Chicago university Press.

Bren, P. (2010). The Greengrocer and his TV. The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring. Ithaka and London: Cornell University Press.

Clifford, J, (1992) „Traveling Cultures“; in Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula A. Treichler (edd.): Cultural Studies. New York/London: Routledge. Pp. 96–112

Curran, J. and Myung-Jin Park, eds. (2000), De-Westernizing Media Studies.Routledge.

Darnton, Robert – Roche, D. edd. (1989) Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775–1800. Berkeley/London/New York: University of California Press/New York Public Library.

Dobrenko, E. (1997) The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Easthope, A. (1991) Literary into Cultural Studies. London: Routledge.

Eisenstein, E. (1979) The printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early modern Europe (2 vols. ed.). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

Engels, F. (1993) The Condition of the Working Class in England. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.

Grossberg, L., Nelson, C., Treichler, P. eds.(1992). Cultural Studies New York: Routledge.

Hoggart, R. (1992 [1957]) The Uses of Literacy. London: Penguin.

Harding, J. and Pribram, E. D. eds.(2009) Emotions: a Cultural Studies Reader. Routledge.

Lutter, C. – Musner, L. edd. (2003) Kulturstudien in Österreich. Wien: Locker Verlag.

Burns, R. ed. (1995) German Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Oxford University Press.

O’Sullivan, T. et al. (1994) Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies.London/New York: Routledge.

Storey, J. (1996) What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. New York: St. Martin Press.

Šmejkalová, J. (2007) “Cultural and Media Studies: The Politics of Location. An Interview with Ann Gray”, Media Studies 1:4.

https://www.medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/front.file/download?file=2007_04_06_smejkalova.pdf

Šmejkalová, J. (2011) Cold War Books in the ‘Other’ Europe and What Came After. Leiden, Boston, Brill.

Šmejkalová J., Lishaugen R. (2019): “Reading East of the Berlin Wall”, PMLA, no 134, pp. 178-187.

Thompson, E. P. (1985) The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press.

Williams, R. (1992 [1961]) The Long Revolution. London: Hoggarth Press.

(1983) Writing in Society. London: Verso.

(1983) Keywords. London: Fontana.

KEY PERIODICALS & links

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.A.) http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/

ACS - Association For Cultural Studies http://cultstud.org/

The International Journal of Cultural Studies http://ics.sagepub.com/content/current

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/journals/clcweb

Theory, Culture & Society http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/current

European Journal of Cultural Studies http://ecs.sagepub.com/content/current

New Formations: A Journal of Culture / Theory / Politics http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/about.html

Culture Machine http://culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/issue/current

Webs of the key departments of Media and Cultural Studies in the USA and UK: University of California, Davis; Stanford; George Mason U.; Warwick; Goldsmith, Westminster, Sheffield, Leeds, Loughborough.

Go out to be ‚in’:

http://jussiparikka.net/

http://www.bruno-latour.fr/

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/centres/css/ant/antres.htm

http://tcjournal.org/drupal/

https://newmaterialism.eu/

Prague Libraries and resource centres:

http://www.en.nkp.cz/

http://knihovna.fsv.cuni.cz/

https://www.lib.cas.cz/en/

http://www.vaclavhavel-library.org/en/

http://www.cefres.cz/en/cefres

https://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/cs/index.html

Assessment – Final Essay – 10 pgs. - to be submitted by 19 January 2024

“Power, Hegemony and Identity in … (the filmic/literary text of your choice …)”

For dates and location see the SIS timetable.

Syllabus:

1. Introduction: Self-presentation, content & structure & assessment & resources & key concepts

Self-presentation

Name

Country & university & subjects you currently study

Your reasons for coming to Charles University/Prague

Your dreamed off professional future

Independent study & open book task for the next (!) session:

You will be assigned one of the following concepts to provide a brief definition and refer to the names of scholars who developed these concepts theoretically:

1. Culture, popular culture, subculture, everyday life, cultural consumption

2. Discourse, identity, gender, ideology, patriarchy

3. Power, hegemony, agency, propaganda, censorship, dissent

4. Representation, text, canon, reader, UGC - user generated content, performance, interactivity

5. Symbolic economy, cultural capital, culture industry

6. Encoding/decoding: dominant - negotiated - oppositional reading positions

7. Diaspora, subaltern, globalization, multiply identities, modern/post-modern subject

Support reading for next session and independent study:

Williams, R. (1973) “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory.” 1973. First published in New Left Review, Vol. 0, Iss. 82, (Nov 1, 1973). Reprinted in Williams, R. Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays, Verso 1980, pp 30-49.

Williams, R. (1983) Keywords. London: Fontana.

O’Sullivan, T. et al. (1994) Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies. London/New York: Routledge.

Šmejkalová, J. (2007) “ Cultural and Media Studies: The Politics of Location. An Interview with Ann Gray”, Media Studies 1:4.

https://www.medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/front.file/download?file=2007_04_06_smejkalova.pdf

2. What is Media & Cultural Studies? Concepts & Ideas & Origins & Inspirations: Birmingham and Beyond & ‘God fathers’

Independent study for next session: Watch and/or read one of the following products Czech Cold-War or post-Cold War culture, take notes and prepare the key points of further discussion:

Films:

The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) dir. Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos (1965)

Daisies (Sedmikrásky) dir. Věra Chytilová (1966)

Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky) dir. Jiří Menzel (1967)

The Firemen's Ball (Hoří, má panenko) dir. Miloš Forman (1967) and/or any of Forman’s films!

Kolya (Kolja) dir. Jan Svěrák (1996)

Cosy Dens (Pelíšky) dir. Jan Hřebejk (1999)

Fiction and non-fiction:

Any text (in translation!) by one of the following authors:

Milan Kundera (The Joke)

Josef Škvorecký (The Miracle Game)

Bohumil Hrabal (I Served the King of England)

Václav Havel (The Garden Party/Zahradní slavnos