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Formative essay - book review

Formative essay - book review. Hand in via BART by Thursday 19 th March. Replacement lecture 11. Willis Learning to Labour is covered in SOC1031A Week 11. How to read popular culture

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Formative essay - book review

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  1. Formative essay - book review Hand in via BART by Thursday 19th March

  2. Replacement lecture 11. Willis Learning to Labour is covered in SOC1031A Week 11. How to read popular culture • Why do people watch soap operas, horror films, and other popular genres. Are they escaping from reality, living in an illusory world, or just enjoying themselves and making money for Hollywood? What does the mass media do to culture and society? Do we live in a ‘hyperreality’ where the images are more real than ’reality’.

  3. Reading: • Lyon, David (1999) Postmodernity. Open University Press, Buckingham. Chapter 4. ‘Postindustrialism to postmodernity’. • Saukko, Paula (2003) Doing research in cultural studies : an introduction to classical and new methodological approaches.London: SAGE, Chapter 2. http://www.sagepub.co.uk/upm-data/9516_010044ch2.pdf Studies: • Ang, Ien (1985).Watching Dallas: soap opera and the melodramatic imagination translated by Della Couling. London; New York: Methuen, 791 ANG • Radway, Janice A.( 1984) Reading the romance : women, patriarchy and popular literature Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, • Paul Willis Profane Cultures 301.23 WIL

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