unit one

Introducing Cultural Studies

 

preliminary discussion: what is cultural studies? what are we doing in this class? what is critique? what is culture?

 

exploration of cultural artifacts:

written text: "body ritual among the nacirema," horace miner

architecture:  cologne (germany) cathedral

visual arts text:  solidarity high noon poster (poland, 1989)

cultural object:  loaf of wonder bread

musical text:  sex pistols' "my way"

style/body text:  hair (angela davis' afro)