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| COMU0003-1 | Issues in Cultural Theory : Mass cultures, in-depth Approach
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Credits/ECTS : |
| Bachelor in Information and Communication, 3rd year | | Second semester | | 4 |
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| One-year preliminary programme leading to the Master in Performing Arts | | Second semester | | 4 |
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| Master in History of Art and Archeology : General, Research Focus, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in History of Art and Archeology : General, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Philosophy, Research Focus, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Philosophy, Research Focus, 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in History of Art and Archeology : General, Professional focus in Museology , 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Holder(s) : | Pascal Durand |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Less a precise definition and more a socio-anthropological concept relating to cultural practices, "mass culture" covers a considerable number of forms, media, institutions and challenges. This course consists not only of theoretically conveying the reasons for this apparently confused proliferation (with the help of cultural sociology, semiology and critical theory of the mass media). In the year 2010-2011, we will undertake a detail analysis of the television serie Lost, as a contemporary recycling of two archetypal novels : Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jules Verne's Mysterious Island. The course will be widely illustrated with sequences of the serie and Powerpoint presentations. |
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| Course objective : | The course objective is to lay the groundwork for research on mass culture from Adorno to Passeron, using a two-pronged critical approach to the field, one relating to the products of mass-culture themselves, the other relating to theory, in the most diverse sense, which we will try to take into account. The theoretical presentations will be complemented by an analysis of cultural products relating to the field in question. |
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| Prerequisites : | Students must have followed the course on Analysis of Cultural Institutions (P. Durand/2nd Bachelor) |
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| Organization : | See : http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
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| Written notes : | The reading portfolio includes a collection of theoretical work.
Required reading of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jules Verne's Mysterious Island. Close viewing at least of the pilot of Lost.
The students will have to read individually one of the following books (in paperbacks) :
* Edgar Morin, L'Esprit du temps (1962)
* Umberto Eco, De Superman au surhomme (1978) |
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| Assessment : | Oral examination. |
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| Contacts : | Course head, Pascal Durand, lecturer, Department of the art and science of communication, Place du 20-Août, 7, 2nd floor, pascal.durand@ulg.ac.be;
Assistant Tanguy Habrand, Place du 20-Août, 7, 2nd floor, tel. 04 366 5717- Fax. 04 366 51 84
Tanguy.Habrand@ulg.ac.be
Secretariat
Tel. 04 366 32 86 |
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