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Lecture 1: introduction to the course & the field o

cultural studies
dinsdag 6 november 2018 15:08

Learning objectives:
- Students can describe the historical developments in the field of Cultural Studies.
- Students will refresh their memory of sociological theories and describe similarities and
differences between the field of cultural studies and sociology.
- Students can appoint concepts important for Cultural Studies.
- Students can place the used textbook in its historical tradition.

Femke van Leeuwen:


fav. Art genre: Contemporary art. CONTEMP
Wishlist: Rubens (Boijmans) en Kinetic Art (Kunsthal) FAV. Artist: Berlinde de Bruyckere
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After this study? MORE STUDY, cultural economics. Masters? Back to teaching?

CULTURAL STUDIES:
Research, ethnicity, cultural sociology: many sociological examples. Meaning-making pro
Presentation and representating.

> Specific academic field since '60 's, Key elements:


1. Critical approach to cultural field:
what is happening?
2. Political:
different agenda's, certain goals within researches (bias?)
3. Engaged:
Write about certain topics due to the need to say something about something?
Misrepresentation? Political dominance? Engagement to topics and the need to ch
something about or within society.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
1964: Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Birmingham (CCCS), by Richard Hoggart.
Attracted a wide range of researchers from all over the world.

CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH OF BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL:


1. Research focusing on literary, historical-philosophical and sociological questions.
2. trans-disciplinary.
Dificult to find a research method for the certain research.
3. interest in the unconventional, the marginalized, the ordinary and the repressed.
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CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH OF BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL:
1. Research focusing on literary, historical-philosophical and sociological questions.
2. trans-disciplinary.
Dificult to find a research method for the certain research.
3. interest in the unconventional, the marginalized, the ordinary and the repressed.
4. Reaction to 'politically naive' traditional disciplines.
5. focusing on issues that were elsewhere thought of as trivial.
6. focus on ordinary culture of the working class.

CIRCUIT OF CULTURE BY PAUL DU GAY & STUART HALL

Different ways to look at culture, from different perspectives, different influences and dif
aspects of culture. Representation as starting point.

STUART HALL (1932-2014)


1. Key actor in Cultural Studies
2. 1968-1979:
(Acting) director of CCCS
3. 1979-1998:
Professor in Sociology at Open University
4. 1955-1997:
President of British Sociological Association.
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(Acting) director of CCCS
3. 1979-1998:
Professor in Sociology at Open University
4. 1955-1997:
President of British Sociological Association.

Representation in contemporary artworlds hard?


Not reality because we create reality by giving meaning to 'stuff'. Different influenc
to one who makes the images, who 'reads' the images or who analyses the image. A
different devices used (such as language or cultural background) to analyse images

ATTEMPT TO PERIODIZE CULTURAL STUDIES:


1. 1956-1984:
The nation and popular culture (Hall, McRobbie) Eg. Britisch culture
2. 1958-1995:
Text and Eg. Meaning, texts etc.
representation more close reading into paintings and other means to
(Barthes, Bakhtin, representation. Using theory to analyse 'texts' into a more
Derrida) philosophical way. More focus on the unconscious meaning
giving. More focus on emotions and other phychological asp
of the human mind.
3. 1980-today:
Globalisation and Orientalism (when you say something about someone else, y
post-essentialism actually are referring or talking about yourself), how the Midd
(Said, Gilroy) East is representated in cultural products says more about th
view of the West than it does of the actual Middle East.
4. 1985-today:
Government and policy Societal powerstructures, who is in charge within the pr
(mainly inspired by making of what is art of what is culture?
Foucault)
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