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Type of Course	Seminar	Number	260811
Hours per week in term	2	Term	SoSe 2015
Department	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Language	englisch
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application period	01.04.2015 - 10.05.2015 enrollment

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		Day	Time	Frequency	Duration	Room	Lecturer	Canceled/rescheduled on	Max. participants
	Seminar	Fr	14:00 to 16:00	wöchentlich	17.04.2015 to 24.07.2015	1.19.4.15			40

Description	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. In this seminar, we will be discussing, analysing, and theorising popular British culture in the context of identity politics in post World War II UK. This means that we will be looking at music, literature, and film from the 1960s to the 2010s from the perspective of race, gender, class, and sexual identity. A Minority Report of the State of the Nation, if you will. Roughly chronological, we will start with The Beatles and The Sex Pistols to discuss the political dimension of popular music: music against the war (Vietnam) on the one hand and music against the establishment on the other. We will set this in context of immigration politics and racism in the UK in the 1950s and 60s, and with Enoch Powells “Rivers of Blood” speech from 1968. From there, we will move on to the film adaptation of Hanif Kureishis novel The Buddha of Suburbia and Salman Rushdies essays about rock music in order to discuss popular culture from the viewpoint of postcolonial identity and to ask, with Paul Gilroy, whether there really is “No Black in the Union Jack”. Prince (the artist formerly known as) will serve as a case study to analyse the performativity – with Judith Butler – of gender. We will be watching the film Pride, and possibly Billy Elliot, to discuss questions of sexual and class identity in the context of the Thatcher government and the national trauma that is the miners strike of 1984/85. The Harry Potter books and their worldwide success will give us the opportunity to discuss and theorise storytelling and what is means to be growing up in an age of global media culture and political uncertainties at the turn of the millennium. To wrap-up the seminar, we will take a contemporary look back in time with the TV series Downton Abbey to try and answer the question of why, for the British, the big war of the 20th century – and possibly ever – was not, as it was for Germans, World War II, but World War I.
Certificates	regular active participation discussion questions an oral presentation plus written documentation (800 to 1000 words)

Description

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

In this seminar, we will be discussing, analysing, and theorising popular British culture in the context of identity politics in post World War II UK. This means that we will be looking at music, literature, and film from the 1960s to the 2010s from the perspective of race, gender, class, and sexual identity. A Minority Report of the State of the Nation, if you will. Roughly chronological, we will start with The Beatles and The Sex Pistols to discuss the political dimension of popular music: music against the war (Vietnam) on the one hand and music against the establishment on the other. We will set this in context of immigration politics and racism in the UK in the 1950s and 60s, and with Enoch Powells “Rivers of Blood” speech from 1968. From there, we will move on to the film adaptation of Hanif Kureishis novel The Buddha of Suburbia and Salman Rushdies essays about rock music in order to discuss popular culture from the viewpoint of postcolonial identity and to ask, with Paul Gilroy, whether there really is “No Black in the Union Jack”. Prince (the artist formerly known as) will serve as a case study to analyse the performativity – with Judith Butler – of gender. We will be watching the film Pride, and possibly Billy Elliot, to discuss questions of sexual and class identity in the context of the Thatcher government and the national trauma that is the miners strike of 1984/85. The Harry Potter books and their worldwide success will give us the opportunity to discuss and theorise storytelling and what is means to be growing up in an age of global media culture and political uncertainties at the turn of the millennium. To wrap-up the seminar, we will take a contemporary look back in time with the TV series Downton Abbey to try and answer the question of why, for the British, the big war of the 20th century – and possibly ever – was not, as it was for Germans, World War II, but World War I.

Certificates

regular active participation discussion questions an oral presentation plus written documentation (800 to 1000 words)

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