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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Miriam Strube
Event type:
Hauptseminar
Org-unit: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Displayed in timetable as:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 50
Requirements and recommendations:
The Everyday is a rapidly growing area of interest in cultural studies and cultural theory, a trend Ben Highmore has described as the "quotidian turn." Analyzing popular culture, consumption and lifestyle but also supposedly ‘boring’ phenomena such as office life, commuting and mass housing, this new field helps to make sense of mythologies of everyday life as well as of cultural and social changes.
In this class we will not simply look at everyday culture but enter the field through the work of central theorist (from Michel de Certeau to Joe Moran), and investigate how they explore concrete sites and routines of the everyday and its representation, for example in political debates, sitcoms, and reality TV shows.
There will be an in-class essays and a mid-term-exam!
All texts will be available on PAUL.
Comment:
The Everyday is a rapidly growing area of interest in cultural studies and cultural theory, a trend Ben Highmore has described as the "quotidian turn." Analyzing popular culture, consumption and lifestyle but also supposedly ‘boring’ phenomena such as office life, commuting and mass housing, this new field helps to make sense of mythologies of everyday life as well as of cultural and social changes.
In this class we will not simply look at everyday culture but enter the field through the work of central theorist (from Michel de Certeau to Joe Moran), and investigate how they explore concrete sites and routines of the everyday and its representation, for example in political debates, sitcoms, and reality TV shows.
There will be an in-class essays and a mid-term-exam!
All texts will be available on PAUL.
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