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Lecturer(s)
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Zahrádka Pavel, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction to the course (subject matter and method of examination) 2. Popular culture as folk culture 3. Popular culture as mass culture 4. The concept of mass 5. Modernism and the creation of high culture 6. The difference between high and popular culture as an instrument of cultural exclusion 7. Popular culture as an area of hegemony 8. Popular culture as postmodern culture 9. Popular culture and kitsch 10. The myth of beauty in mass media 11. Ideology and comics 12. The aesthetics of popular art
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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Since the late 18th century, the focus of researchers found herself popular culture. Popular culture was the theoretical examination always be defined in contrast to other conceptual categories (popular culture, mass culture, high culture, working class culture, etc.). Our aim will be to demonstrate how the concept of popular culture influenced depending on the selected contrasting conceptual categories. Graduates of the course so they can learn about the various theoretical approaches to popular culture. Part of the course will also include an analysis of specific forms of popular culture. The course is planned in the form of twelve two-hour sessions combining form of lectures and seminars, where each of the issues discussed on the basis of independent reading and seminar analysis of the texts presented in English and Czech.
Students are familiarized with the particular theoretical approaches to popular culture.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Dialog, Seminar Work
Prerequisite for the granting of credit is in addition to participation in a seminar paper thematically relevant text and development of seminar work. Colloquium will be realised by interview on the topic of the circuit course.
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Recommended literature
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Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, London: Routledge, 1984..
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BURKE, Peter. Lidová kultura v raně novověké Evropě. Praha: Argo, 2005.
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COLLINS, Jim. Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism. New York: Routledge 1989.
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ECO, Umberto. Skeptikové a těšitelé. Praha: Svoboda, 1995..
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GRACYK, Theodor. Rhytm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
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LE BON, Gustave. Psychologie davu. Praha: KRA, 1994.
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Storey, John. Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003..
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