PPT-ENGL 3815 Survey of Popular Culture

Fall 2013 PH 321 Dr David Lavery Survey of Popular Culture Survey of Popular Culture Survey of Popular Culture Boorstins Epigraphs Technology the knack of so arranging the world that we dont have to experience itMax Frisch. Lysistrata. by Aristophanes. and. Commedia dell'arte. . The Comic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Lysistrata. by Aristophanes . The Comic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Medieval to Renaissance. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Medieval to Renaissance. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Medieval to Renaissance. “We need to hurry up because soon it will be the Renaissance and we will all be painting.”. English 2020-24. Themes in Literature and Culture:. The Grotesque.  . Spring . 2015. 100-225 | PH 308. The Grotesque in Theory. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. The true iconoclast is the image itself which explodes . . . allegorical meanings, releasing new insights. Thus the most distressing images in dreams and fantasies, those we shy away from for their disgusting distortion and perversion, are precisely the ones that break the allegorical frame of what we know about this person or that, this trait of ourselves or that. The “worst” images are the best, for they are the ones that restore a figure to its pristine, numinous, power. . . .. Pieter . Bruegel. the Elder (1525-1569). ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. The greatest of the Flemish sixteenth-century masters of genre was Pieter . Bruegel. the Elder. We know little of his life except that he had been to Italy, like so many northern artists of his time, and that he lived and worked in Antwerp and Brussels, where he painted most of his pictures in the 1560s, the decade in which the stern Duke of Alva arrived in the Netherlands. The dignity of art and of artists was probably as important to him as it was to . 6330/7330: Major . American . Writers—Herman . Melville's . Moby-Dick. 1849. ENGL . 6330/7330: Major . American . Writers—Herman . Melville's . Moby-Dick. Mardi. ENGL . 6330/7330: Major . American . Il . Poeta. : Federico Fellini. 8 1/2 . (1963). “Down, definitely down!. Fellini’s Movies. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Amarcord. . (1974). Fellini’s Movies. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. 6480/7480 | Studies . in Contemporary Literature: . Mad Men . and the Sixties. .  . Dr. David Lavery. Summer 2015.  . Season 5. ENGL . 6480/7480 | Studies . in Contemporary Literature: . Mad Men . Hieronymous. Bosch (1450-1516). In real life he was quite an ordinary fellow I’m told, a city father who enjoyed taking care of the costumes of the yearly carnival. Of course everything was religious then.. Typically begins with an idea/good and contagious diffusion.. Companies can create/manufacture popular culture. (ie. MTV). Individuals can create/manufacture popular culture. (ie. Tony Hawk)-video games involving extreme sports popularized skateboarding and other sports.. Fall 2013. PH 321. Dr. David Lavery. Survey of Popular Culture. Daniel Chandler’s Semiotics for Beginners. Watch short videos on semiotics from YouTube.. Survey of Popular Culture. Semiotics. Daniel Chandler’s Definition: . Objectives. Diffusion of Popular Housing, Clothing, and Food. Electronic Diffusion of Popular . Culture. Underlining thread to popular culture is CONSUMPTION.. Diffusion of Popular Housing, Clothing, and Food. Origin of Culture. Folk Culture. Isolated, clustered. Topics involve every day life, environment, beliefs. Passed down orally. Traditions . Spread by relocation diffusion. Little change over time. Separate, multiple hearths. AS Sociology G671. Recap from Taster. .. What is Sociology. The study of human beings in social groups. *. Understanding the problems that face individuals by exploring the ways in which the structure of society – and its . Dr. David Lavery, Fall 2016. Directors. Special Topics in Popular Culture, Fall 2016. Game of Thrones . Directors. Special Topics in Popular Culture, Fall 2016. Game of Thrones . Directors. Special Topics in Popular Culture, Fall 2016.