Belton, John: Movies and Mass Culture, 1996. Rutgers University Press.
Kompendium:
- Alloula, Malek. “From the Colonial Harem.” In The Visual Culture Reader. Routledge, 1998. (pp. 304-16)
- Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” In Reading Images, ed. Julia Thomas. Palgrave, 2000. (pp. 62-75)
- Butler, Judith. “Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion.” Bodies That Matter. Routledge, 1993. (pp. 121-40)
- Cartwright, Lisa. “Science and the Cinema.” In The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff. Routledge, 1998. (pp.199-214)
- Clifford, James. “On Collecting Art and Culture.” In Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, ed. Russell Ferguson et al. MIT Press, 1990. (pp. 141-69)
- Duggan, Lisa. “Downsizing Democracy.” The Twilight of Equality? Beacon Press, 2003. (pp. 1-21)
- Foucault, Michel. “Panopticism.” In Discipline and Punish. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Vintage, 1979. (pp.195-228)
- Harris, Cheryl. “Whiteness as Property.” Harvard Law Review 106.8 (June 1993): 1710-91.
- Mitchell, Timothy. “Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order.” In The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff. Routledge, 1998. (pp. 293-303)
- Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” and “Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.’” Visual and Other Pleasures. Indiana University Press, 1989. (pp. 14-38)
- Rabinowitz, Paula. “Wreckage upon Wreckage: History, Documentary, and the Ruins of Memory” and “History in Your Own Home: Cinema Vérité, Docudrama, and America’s Families.” They Must Be Represented: the Politics of Documentary. Verso, 1994. (pp. 16-34 and 130-54)
- West, Cornel. “The New Cultural Politics of Difference.” In Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, ed. Russell Ferguson et al. MIT Press, 1990. (pp. 19-38)
- Zinn, Howard. “Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress.” A People’s History of the United States. Harper and Row, 1980. (pp. 1-22)
Required Films:
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Far From Heaven (2002)
- Imitation of Life (1959)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
- Manufacturing Consent (1992)
- Paris is Burning (1990)
- Smoke Signals (1998)
- Spellbound (2002)
- Matewan (1987)
NOTE: Additional materials will be handed out during the course. These will include articles and film reviews and will not be too time-consuming to read (approx. 60 pp.) I will also add two to three films.