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Example 2: Soviet and Post-Soviet consumption: material culture and social life (interpreting messages and attracting i

Example 2: Soviet and Post-Soviet consumption: material culture and social life (interpreting messages and attracting ideas) Ideas learned and discussed: Material and “spiritual” culture : descriptive, symbolic and normative interpretations

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Example 2: Soviet and Post-Soviet consumption: material culture and social life (interpreting messages and attracting i

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  1. Example 2: Soviet and Post-Soviet consumption: material culture and social life (interpreting messages and attracting ideas) • Ideas learned and discussed: • Material and “spiritual” culture: descriptive, symbolic and normative interpretations • Material culture and the home as “indicators” of social conditions. • Culture, morality, ideology and consumption: everyday narratives and visual representations • Consumption, ideology and everyday life: strategies of resistance and acceptance. • Possessions as carriers of identity and status messages: helpful or misleading? • Etc, etc, etc. In my teaching, I use 2 movies for this purpose: • “GOODBYE, Lenin” • (Germany, Wolfgang Becker (2003)) • “Old-style New Year” (Staryi Novyi God) • (USSR, Naum Ardashnikov, Oleg Yefremov (1980))

  2. Consumption and identity: “reading status messages from the visual information we have” “Inside culture” as reflection of social standing: home interiors as tools for managing impressions. “Staryi Novyi God” movie screenshots, Family in interiors. Assignment for group 1.

  3. Consumption and identity: “reading status messages from the visual information we have” “Inside culture” as reflection of social standing: home interiors as tools for managing impressions. “Staryi Novyi God” movie screenshots, Family in interiors. Assignment for group 2.

  4. Consumption and identity: “reading status messages from the visual information we have” “Inside culture” as reflection of social standing: home interiors as tools for managing impressions. “Staryi Novyi God” movie screenshots, Family in interiors. Assignment for group 3.

  5. Example 3: Visualizing theoretical ideas as a group practice • Seminar topic: French School of “Annals” about cultural history. Length: 1,5 hours Course: 4th year undergraduates Prerequisites: 1. Lecture on key ideas of the French social historians about history and culture 2. Reading 2 articles on the subject. Assignment: Illustrate any of the ideas learnt on the exampleof the Soviet history after 2nd World War.

  6. Project 1: non-uniformity of historical, cultural and social processes

  7. Project 2: poetics of everyday life

  8. Conclusions: to use or not to use? • So far as culture is becoming more and more visual, using visuals in teaching it is an important learning tool, and it DOES allow a lot. • However, it is important for a teacher to do loads of work for choosing the proper materials, and integrating them into the whole logic of the course. • It is also important to keep the balance between entertainment and work, watching and reading, commonsense and scientific knowledge, etc. • How to do it?

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