Pensum:
- Classroom lectures and group discussions.
- Examples of contemporary American popular culture, to be announced according to availability (viewing of TV & film, handouts and musical experiences).
Books:
John Storey: Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture: Theories and Methods, 2003. University of Edinburgh Press, 2nd edition. ISBN: 0748618090. 164 pages.
Cecilia Konchar Farr: Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads, 2004. State University of NY Press. 164 pages.
Verney, Kevern: African Americans and US Popular Culture, 2003. New York: Routledge. 111 pages.
Compendium - Globalization:
- "'Where Hamburgers Sizzle on an Open Grill Night and Day'?: Global Pop Music and Americanization in the Year 2000," American Studies, Mid-America American Studies Assn, and the University of Kansas 41 (2/3) 2000 (pp. 119-136)
- "American Culture Goes Global, or Does It?" Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002 (pp. 1-5)
- "There's an Art to Telling the World about America," Washington Post, August 25, 2002 (pp. 1-6)
- "In Praise of Cultural Imperialism? Effects of Globalization on Culture," Foreign Policy June 22, 1997 (pp. 1-8)
- Ruth Vasey, "Foreign Parts: Hollywood's Global Distribution and the Representation of Ethnicity," in Couvares, Francis G. Movie Censorship and American Culture, Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996 (pp. 212-236)
Compendium - Film:
- Jonas Spatz, "Hollywood as a mythmaker," Chapter 1 in Hollywood in Fiction: Some versions of the American Myth, 1969 (pp. 9-57)
- Michael Medved, Chapters 1 and 2, Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values, Harper Collins Publishers, 1992 (pp. 3-34)
- Victory S. Navasky, Naming Names, NY:Viking Press, 1980 (pp. 73-96)
- Steven Mintz & Randy Roberts, "Introduction," in Mintz & Roberts, ed., Hollywood's America: United States History Through its Films, Brandywine Press, 1993 (pp. 1-27)
- Eric Smoodin, "Compulsory' Viewing for every citizen: Mr. Smith and the rhetoric of reception," in Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo, Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies, Routledge, 2001 (pp. 343-358)
- Richard Maltby and Kate Bowles, "Hollywood: The Economics of Utopia," in Richard Maidment and Jeremy Mitchell, The United States in the 20th Century: Culture, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000 (pp. 99-138)
- "American Television Culture," Chapter 5 in Richard Maidment and Jeremy Mitchell, The United States in the 20th Century: Culture, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000 (pp. 139-162)
- "Sport," Chapter 7 in Richard Maidment and Jeremy Mitchell, The United States in the 20th Century: Culture, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000 (pp. 205-225)
Compendium - General:
- Lawrence W. Levine, "Introduction" and "Prologue," Highbrow Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, Harvard University Press, 1988 (pp. 1-9 and 243-256, accompanying footnotes pp. 257, 291-293)
- Torbjørn Sirevåg, "Euro-Americans," Westerners: Six Reasons Why American Are Different, A View from Northwest Europe, Gyldendal, 1999 (pp. 1-20)
- Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg, The Science of Superheroes, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002, (pp. xi-xvii, 33-35)
- Harvey Mackay, "The Closer: How to Succeed," in Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate your Competition (pp. 263-273)
- Lewis A. Erenberg, "Things to Come: Swing Bands, Bebop, and the Rise of a Postwar Jazz Scene," in Lary May, ed., Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of the Cold War, University of Chicago Press, 1989 (pp. 221-245)
- George Lipsitz, "Land of a Thousand Dances: Youth, Minorities, and the Rise of Rock and Roll, in Lary May, ed., Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of the Cold War, University of Chicago Press, 1989 (pp. 267-284)
- Reinhold Wagnleitner, "The Irony of American Culture Abroad: Austria and the Cold War," in Lary May, ed., Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of the Cold War, University of Chicago Press, 1989 (pp. 285-301)
- Rebecca L. Walkowitz, "Reproducing Reality: Murphy Brown and Illegitimate Politics," in Garber, Matlock & Walkowitz, Media Spectacles, Routledge, 1993 (pp. 40-56)
- Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are. Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, New York & Toronto: Times Books and Random House of Canada Limited. 1994, 1995 (pp. 139-219)
- "Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism," Chapter 6 in James D. Lester & James D. Lester Jr., Writing Research Papers, 11th Edition, Pearson Longman, 2005
The Compendium NORAM1502 - American Popular Culture will be available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika, from the beginning of term.