Instructor: Satoshi Tsukamoto, Ph.D.                              
Spring 2008

Aichi University

Seminar 1: Cultural Studies and American Movies

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1     Introduction and overview of the course:

Week 2     *UNDERSTANDING POPULAR CULTURE
Reading due: John Fiske. “British Cultural Studies and Television”

Week 3      *GENDER IDENTITY CISIS
Reading due: Linda Dittmar, “Performing Gender in Boys Don't Cry”
Movie due: Boys Don't Cry (pdf caption1999)

　

Week 4        *TRANSSEXUALS AND ROCK
Reading due: Elizabeth L. Wollman, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
Movie due: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (pdf caption 2001)

Week 5     *TRANSSEXUALS AND FAMILY
Reading due: On Making Transamerika," "Transformation from Felicity to Bree,"
Movie due: Transamerica (pdf caption2005)

Week 6        *CONTROVERAIAL LOVE IN A RURAL COMMUNITY
Reading due: Annie Proulx, "Getting Movied," Diana Ossana "Climbing Brokeback Mountain," and Larry McMurty "Adapting Brokeback Mountain"
Movie due: Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Week 7 Presentaion

Week 8 Presention

Week 9     *DISNEY
Movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame(pdf caption 1996)
First paper due

Week 10       *DISNEY II

Reading due: Henry A. Giroux, "Animating Youth: The Dysnification of Children's Culture,"
Movie due: Beauty and Beast (1991)

Week 11 *A WHITE TEACHER AND MINORITY STUDENTS
Reading due: Henry A. Giroux, “The Politics of Pedagogy, Gender, and Whiteness in Dangerous Minds,”
Movie due: Dangerous Minds (pdf caption 1995)

Week 12     * ETHOS OF HIGH SCHOOL
Reading due: Henry A. Giroux “Culture, Class, and Pedagogy in Dead Poets Society”
Movie due: Dead Poets Society (pdf caption 1989)

Week 13        Presentation III

Week 14 Presention IV