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Reading Popular Culture

  • ENGL2801
  • Semester 2, offshore teaching period (see Timetable)
  • 6 points
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This unit is an introduction to the field known as cultural studies. Students are introduced to a range of issues and readings that come from different disciplines but are all involved in a broader attempt to 'read' culture. Most people are familiar with the idea of reading a book or poem and even of reading a film, but this unit considers whether it is legitimate to regard other cultural formations and practices as texts. Thematically the unit moves from an interest in the 'everyday' towards a sense in which this everyday is replaced by creative and sometimes subversive alternatives in the form of play, travel and celebrity culture.<br/><br/>In 2009, the unit was redesigned to focus on... -- Course Website

Instructor: Associate Professor Stephen Chinna

Prerequisites: any Level 1 English unit



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