ESB032 Selected Topics of the Popular Culture

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ondřej Krajtl (lecturer)
Mgr. Václav Maxmilián, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 10:50–12:25 B2.13
Prerequisites
Reading texts in English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
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Course objectives
This course serves for better understanding of popular culture texts and studies. It introduces selected topics and themes of popculture production. Participants can familiarize basic critical ways of thinking about popculture, culture values and everyday aesthetics.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- identify selected issues in western popculture;
- analyse these issues with main tools of Critical Thinking;
- describe the main changes of cultural values and everyday life caused by pop culture.
Syllabus
  • What is Popular Culture?
  • Historical facts in popular culture
  • Narcissism and popculture
  • The disappearance of childhood
  • "Pop" is my religion
  • Comics and its influence on popculture
  • Popmusic and industry
  • Film as spectacle
  • Popculture and cyberculture
  • Gamification of pop culture
Literature
  • BARTLOVÁ, Milena. Populární kultura a historie jako věda a fikce (úvod) + Tajemství katedrál a jiné tajné historky (Pop History. On historical reliability of novels, films and computer games.). In Pop History. O historické hodnověrnosti románů, filmů a počítačových her. (editorka). Praha: Nakladatelství Lidových novin, 2003, p. 5-8, 131-140, 15 pp. Knihovnička Dějin a současnosti. ISBN 80-7106-345-2. info
  • LYON, David. Ježíš v Disneylandu : náboženství v postmoderní době. Translated by Petra Vlčková. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2002, 270 s. ISBN 8020409416. info
  • Éra prázdnoty :úvahy o současném individualismu. Edited by Gilles Lipovetsky - Helena Beguivinová. 2. vyd. Praha: PROSTOR, 2001, 269 s. ISBN 80-7260-044-3. info
  • STRINATI, Dominic. An introduction to theories of popular culture. London: Routledge, 1995, xviii, 301. ISBN 0415124700. info
  • POSTMAN, Neil. The disappearance of childhood. 1st ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1994, xiii, 177. ISBN 0679751661. info
Teaching methods
Lectures which requires homework preparation in reading the assigned study literature. After teacher's presentation of the general and particular features of the subject, students are guided to interpretation of the chosen extracts, and class discussions follow
Assessment methods
Reading of selected texts during the semester. For final grade: written test form given literature.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Obecné podmínky ukončování kursů Semináře estetiky
The course is taught annually.
General note: Obecné podmínky ukončování kursů Semináře estetiky.
Information on course enrolment limitations: posluchači estetiky Bc., kteří začali své studium před více než čtyřmi semestry, musí mít splněnu postupovou zkoušku (ESAPZE), jinak si nesmí předmět zapsat
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019.
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