Jan 12 – Intro
Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers, conclusion
Decherney on Star Trek Axanar
Jan 19 – The Active Audience
Leo Braudy, “The Advent of the Fan”
Theodor Adorno, “On the Fetish-Character of Music”
Stuart Hall, “Encoding/Decoding”
Susan Douglas, “Popular Culture and Populist Technology”
Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown, part 2
Jan 26 From the Avant-Garde to Subcultures to Fans
Tristan Tzara, “Lecture on Dada?”
Peter Wollen, “Two Avant-Gardes”
Susan Sontag “Notes on Camp”
Dick Hebdige, “The Function of a Subculture”
Jenkins, Ito, boyd, Participatory Culture in a Networked World, ch 1
Feb 2 Intellectual Property
Rebecca Tushnet, “Copyright Law, Fan Practices, and The Rights of the Author”
Hunter and Lastowka , “Barbie™“
Feb 9 – Cults and Communities
Francesca Coppa, “Women, Star Trek, and the Early Development of Fanish Vidding”
Henry Jenkins, “’Get a Life!’: Fans, Poachers, Nomads”
Umberto Eco, “Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage”
Aswin Punathambbekar, “Television, Participatory Culture, and Politics: The Case of Indian Idol”
Mark Schultz, “Fear, Norms, and Rock & Roll” (skim)
Guest Speaker: Francesca Coppa
Feb 16 Characters and Celebrities
Richard Dyer, “Judy Garland and Gay Men”
Sara Gwenillian Jones, “The Sex Lives of Television Characters”
Henry Jenkins, “Slash and the Fan Writing Community”
Decherney on Sherlock Holmes and the Public Domain
Feb 23 Manga, Anime, Dojinshi, and Otaku Culture
Susan Napier, From Impressionism to Anime, chs. 1, 6
Salil Mehra, “Copyright and Comics in Japan”
Paper and Project proposals Due
March 2 – Production Workshop
March 9 – spring break
March 16 – Creative Projects Due
March 23 – Fan Labor and The Hybrid Economy
Lawrence Lessig, Remix, chs. 1 and 7
Tim O’Reilly, “What is Web 2.0?”
Decherney on AFI-Fox
John Fiske, “The Cultural Economy of Fandom”
Lewis Hyde, “The Bond” and “The Gift Community”
Bibliographies Due
March 30 – no class
April 6 – Presentations (Shawn, Claris, Caroline)
April 13 – Presentations (Kerry, Ana, Joe, Megan)
April 20 – Presentations (Jeremy, Katelyn, Josh, Ah-Keisha) and Final Papers Due
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