Paweł Frelik

Methodologies in American Studies, 14.02.2013
Dr. Paweł Frelik
pawel.frelik@umcs.edu.pl

Media Narratives and (so-called) Popular Culture

Reading list

Required reading:

01. Katherine Hayles – Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep. The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis

02. Jonathan Gray – Show Sold Separately (excerpts)

03. Jeffrey Sconce – Trashing the Academy_ Taste, Excess and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style

Optional reading:

04. Andrew Darley – Visual Digital Culture (excerpts)

05. Steven E. Jones – The Meaning of Video Games (excerpts)

06. Steven Shaviro – Southland Tales

Further reading:

07. Bolter and Grusin – Remediation (excerpts)

08. Lev Manovich – Database as Symbolic Form

09. Henry Jenkins – Game Design As Narrative Architecture

10. Henry Jenkins – Convergence Culture (excerpts)

11. Katherine Hayles – Translating Media – Why We Should Rethink Textuality

12. Jonathan Lethem – The Ecstasy of Influence – A Plagiarism

13. Steven Shaviro – Post-Cinematic Affect. On Grace Jones, Boarding Gate and Southland Tales