ClassInfo - Fall 2017 English Classes

Fall 2017 | ENGL 8520 Section 001: Seminar: Cultural Theory and Practice -- American Places/Modern Times (34728)

Instructor(s): Jani Scandura
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017

Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM

UMTC, East Bank

Lind Hall 202

Course Catalog Description:: Sample topics: semiotics applied to perspective paintings, numbers, and money; analysis of a particular set of cultural practices by applying various theories to them. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jani+ENGL8520+Fall2017
Class Description:: American Places/Modern Times: This interdisciplinary seminar will explore current thinking about place and space, with a particular focus on American places as portrayed in fiction, poetry, film, and art. We will consider both "America" and "place" in a broad sense, exploring and exploding understandings of American place as geographical site, imagined community, idea, ideal, style and aesthetic. The class is organized around the "modern" American places depicted in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times: the factory, asylum, crowd, the prison, home, department store, and cabaret. Readings and films that span the 19th to 21st centuries, from Poe's crowds to the prisons in Guantanamo Bay. Works by: Charlie Chaplin, Antonio Gramsci, Nelly Bly, Michel Foucault, Edgar Allan Poe, Miné Okubo, George Cukor, Al Jolson, David and Albert Maysles, Michael Rogin, Jasmine Alinder, Lisa Guenther, Toyo Miyatake, Scott Herring, and others.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34728/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 23 June 2017

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