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“Me Talk Pretty One Day” “Jesus Shaves” “The Tapeworm is In”

“Me Talk Pretty One Day” “Jesus Shaves” “The Tapeworm is In”. Focus on: Language acquisition Artificiality of didactic situation Impossibility of authentic self-expression Culture translation/communication Assumptions and stereotypes Degrees of incommunicability.

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“Me Talk Pretty One Day” “Jesus Shaves” “The Tapeworm is In”

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  1. “Me Talk Pretty One Day” • “Jesus Shaves” • “The Tapeworm is In”

  2. Focus on: • Language acquisition • Artificiality of didactic situation • Impossibility of authentic self-expression • Culture translation/communication • Assumptions and stereotypes • Degrees of incommunicability

  3. George McKay,Yankee Go Home (And Take Me With You). Americanization and Popular Culture • EU vs. US cultural influence • Shift during the 20th century • Validation from the outside • US popular culture • Within American Studies curricula • Outside academia

  4. Questions raised: • Synecdoches of “America” • “America exported does not equal America at home” • Role of the Media • Specificity of the author’s cultural belonging and assumptions

  5. Location, location Visual representations of USA

  6. “Las Vegas: the embodiment of the American Dream – instant fortune, immediate gratification, wonderful living – and its inverse – failure, tragedy, death;

  7. Miami: sunshine and wealth, racial melting-pot, illegal immigration and infiltration of national security and borders;

  8. New York: the Big Apple, another racial melting-pot and site of legal immigration, globally iconic, the city that never sleeps, epicentre of the nation’s worst nightmare of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

  9. The three cities, together, present the best and worst of America and, in so doing, offer their CSI teams an inexhaustible (for inexhaustible investigators) supply of dead bodies and cases to solve.” (From: Michael Allen, “Introduction. This Much I Know…”, in Reading CSI)

  10. Rob Kroes in Here, There and Everywhere: • -Advertising • Media industry • “Visual lingua franca” • “commodification of American icons of freedom” through advertising

  11. Keywords: Mass-marketing Internationalization Decontextualization Consumerism Commodification Shared repertoires of images Cultural language

  12. - parallel structure • of Police and criminality • “neutral” gaze on urban • life and geography • representation of • “America” as still a land • opportunity • - language/identity

  13. Alasdair McMillan, “Heroism, Institutions, and the Police Procedural”, in Reading The Wire - The Wire as a Foucauldian study/critique of American institutions

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