Week Four (June 13) - Cultural Studies, Part I

Readings for today:

• NOTE - Copies of the readings for this week are on my office door (13N, 624 S. Michigan)
• Dick Hebdige, excerpt from Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). 
• Raymond Williams, "The Analysis of Culture."
• EP Thompson, "Preface from the Making of the English Working Class."
• READING RESPONSE PAPER DUE TODAY!

Reading Questions & Guides:

• Guide: Stuart Hall, "On the Origins of Cultural Studies," (video)
• Guide: Norma Schulman, "Conditions of Their Own Making: An Intellectual History of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham." Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 18, No. 1 (1993). 
• Guide: Daniel Chandler, "Semiotics for Beginners: Encoding/Decoding" (online) 
• Guide: Professor Ron Strickland's lecture on British Cultural Studies (via YouTube)

For further reading/research:

• Raymond Williams, "Culture is Ordinary," in The Everyday Life Reader, ed. Ben Highmore (New York & London: Routledge) 2002, pp. 91-100.
• Raymond Williams, "Analysis of Culture," in The Long Revolution, 1961, pp. 57-70. 
• Stuart Hall, "Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies." Originally published in Cultural Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula Treichler (New York & London: Routledge) 1992, pp. 277-294.  
• Stuart Hall, "The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities," October, Vol. 53, 1990, pp. 11-90. 
• Stuart Hall, "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms," Media, Culture and Society 2 (1980): pp. 57-72.
• Marquard Smith, "On the State of Cultural Studies: An Interview with Paul Gilroy," Third Text, No. 49, Winter 1999-2000, pp. 15-26.
• Henry Giroux, "Cultural Studies, Public Pedagogy and the Responsibility of Intellectuals," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 59-79. 
• Alan O’Connor, "Who’s Emma and The Limits of Cultural Studies," Cultural Studies, Vol. 13 (4) 1999 , pp. 691-702. 
• Stuart Hall, "Culture, Community, Nation," Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1993): 349-363.