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\n\tWeek One 13August
\n\tIntroduction
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\n\tReading for next week: Dick Hebdige, “From Culture to Hegemony” (Find it in Workbin: Lecture Notes in IVLE)
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\n\tWeek Two 20 August
\n\tThe turn to culture: What is meant by “Culture”?
\n\tWhat is Culture?
\n\tReading for next week: Jeff Lewis, "Contemporary Culture, Cultural Studies and the Global Mediasphere"
\n\tReference for next week: Roland Barthes, “The Rhetoric of the Image”
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\n\tWeek Three 27 August
\n\tStudying Culture: Cultural Studies and Mythology
\n\tReading for next week: Adorno and Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry”
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\n\tWeek Four 3 September
\n\tThe Culture Industry
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\n\tWeek Five 10 September
\n\tCulture, Ideology, Hegemony: explanation and examples
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\n\tWeek Six 18 September
\n\tGroup Projects and Recapitulation
\n\tSigns, Hegemony and Ideology: The Culture Industry Revisited and a case study
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\n\tReadings for after the break:
\n\t“Rock and Sexuality,” Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie
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