AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
ANTHROPOLOGY 400
MEDIA, DISCOURSE AND CULTURE
2-5 p.m.
Dr. Mark Allen Peterson
SS123 x6778
Texts:
Carbaugh, Donal. 1989. Talking American: Cultural Discourse on Donahue.
Ablex Books.
Dickey, Sara. 1993. Cinema and the Urban Poor in India.
Cambridge
University Press.
Drummond, Lee. 1996. American Dreamtime: A Cultural Analysis of Popular
Movies. Littlefield Adams Books.
Naficy, Hamid. 1993. The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television
in
Los Angeles. University of Minnesota Press.
I MASS MEDIA AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE
June 21 Introduction: The Study of Expressive
Culture
II FILM AND OTHER FICTIONS
June 23 Movies and Myths
Reading:
Drummond, Lee. 1996. American Dreamtime: A Cultural Analysis of Popular
Movies. Littlefield Adams Books.
June 28 Storyworlds and Symbolic Power
Lipsitz, George. 1986. The meaning of memory: Family, class and ethnicity
in early network television programs. Cultural Anthropology 1(4): 355
387.
Rofel, Lisa B. 1994 Yearnings: Televised love and melodramatic
politics
in contemporary China. American Ethnologist 21(4): 700 722.
June 30 Media and Moral Discourse
Abu-Lughod. 1995. The objects of soap opera: Egyptian television
and the
cultural politics of modernity. In Worlds Apart: Modernity Through
the
Prism of the Local. Daniel Miller, ed. Routledge
Wilk, Richard. 1993. Its destroying a whole generation!:
Television and
moral discourse in Belize. Visual Anthropology 5:229-244.
III NEWS AND OTHER TRUTHS
July 5 News, Truth and Discourse
Carbaugh, Donal. 1989. Talking American: Cultural Discourse on Donahue.
Ablex Books.
July 7 Truth, Responsibility and Evidence
Clayman, Steven E. 1990. From talk to text: Newspaper accounts
of
reporter source interactions. Media, Culture and Society 12(1):
79 103.
Young, Tim. 1991 "Framed in the doorway: The Observer and
the Yemeni
Brides affair. Media, Culture and Society 13(2): 239 247.
July 12 Journalism as Interpretive Practice
Coutin, Susan Bibler and Phyllis Pease Chock. 1995. Your
friend, the
illegal: Definition and paradox in newspaper accounts of U.S. immigration
reform. Identities 2(1 2): 123 148.
Landsman, Gail. 1987. Indian activism and the press: Coverage
of the
conflict at Ganienkah. Anthropological Quarterly 60(3): 101 113.
Peterson, Mark. In press. The rehtoric of epidemic in India: News
coverage of AIDS. Alif, No. 18.
IV LIVING IN MEDIA SOCIETIES
July 14 Cultures of Consumption
Dickey, Sara. 1993. Cinema and the Urban Poor in India.
Cambridge
University Press.
July 19 Indigenous Media
Ginsburg, Faye. 1991. Indigenous media: Faustian contract
or global
village. Cultural Anthropology 6(1): 92 112.
Turner, Terrence. 1992. Defiant images: The Kayapo appropriation
of
video. Anthropology Today 8(6): 5 16.
July 21 Media and Transnational Culture
Naficy, Hamid. 1993. The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television
in
Los Angeles. University of Minnesota Press.
V MEDIA, POWER AND SOCIAL CHANGE
July 26 Mediated Consumers: Advertising as Expressive
Culture
Coombe, Rosemary J. 1996. Embodied trademarks: Mimesis
and alterity on
American commercial frontiers. Cultural Anthropology 11(2): 202-224.
Strong, Pauline Turner. 1996. Animated Indians: Critique
and
contradiction in commodified childrens culture. Cultural Anthropology
11(3): 405-424.
July 28 Development, Nationalism and Propaganda
Bateson, Gregory. 1942 [1972] Morale and national character.
In Steps to
an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine.
Beeman, William O. 1984. The cultural role of the media in Iran.
In The
News Media in National and International Conflict. Andrew Arno and
Wimal
Dissanayake, eds. Boulder: Westview.
Carael, M. and John B. Stanbury. 1984. A film program in health and
family
planning in rural Zaire. Human Organization 43(4): 341 348.
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