Topic Description

Topic Description
# Topic Description Syllabus
1 Introduction to Literature and Media Studies
2 Simon, Richard Keller. Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition. Ch.1, Trash and Literature.
3 “What it is and what it isn't: Introducing ... Cultural Studies.” Companion to Cultural Studies . 1-19.
4 Baker, Brain. Masculinity in Fiction and Film. Ch. 4: Psycho in Gray Flannel Suit (65-85)
5 The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television 8.3 213-235.
6 Anxious Masculinity: A Comparative Study of Philip Dick’s Scanner Darkly and Richard Linklater’s Adaptation
7 Barthes, Image-music-text, Rhetoric of the Image, (32-51)
8 Insta-poets! From Sylvia Plath to rupi kur be water, don’t just trust anyone, us, to fathers and Lady Lazarus
9 Insta-poets! From Sylvia Plath to rupi kur be water, don’t just trust anyone, us, to fathers and Lady Lazarus
10 What is media psychology? Implications? Ways of thinking about psychology and the media? 2-4,
11 Methods for studying media and psychology/ media and persuasion/body image, eating disorders and the media/media and advertising
12 Leitch, Thomas M. “Twelve Fallacies in Contemporary Adaptation Theory.” Criticism. 149-171.
13 Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge, 2006. Ch.1= (1-33) Beginning to Theorize Adaptation: What? Who? Why? How? Where? When?
14 Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge, 2006. Ch.1= (1-33) Beginning to Theorize Adaptation: What? Who? Why? How? Where? When?
15 Media studies, media psychology, adaptation studies, (adaptation, Film, videogame,…)Rev. Project discussion