Popular Culture Readings

PPT Slides

11.12.2018 What is popular Culture?

Gramsci Reader: Part 12 and 14

Dombroski,Robert S.On Gramsci's Theatre Criticism

12.12.2018 The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory

Adorno and Horkeimer, The Culture Industries: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (1944)

Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936)

13.12.2018 Raymond Williams, EP Thompson and Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies

Raymond Williams, Culture is Ordinary (1958)

Stuart Hall (1992) Race, Culture, and Communications: Looking Backward

14.12.2018 Applying Cultural Theory I: Film

Erndl, Kathleen M. (2013) "Woman Becomes Goddess in Bollywood: Justice, Violence, and the Feminine in Popular Hindi Film,"

Neelam Srivastava (2009). “Bollywood as National(ist) Cinema Violence, Patriotism and the National-Popular in Rang De Basanti.”

Ciolfi, S. (2012). Popular Hindi Cinema: Narrative Structures and Points of Continuity with the Tradition. Acme 65 (1):387-397

15.12.2018 Applying Cultural Theory III: Clessicul and Folk Music Urban Youth Music and commodification

Kalra, V. S. (2015). Sacred and secular musics: a postcolonial approach. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Roy, A. (2017). Bhangra moves: From Ludhiana to London and beyond. Routledge.