National ethnology / anthropology - Popular Culture

Pre-requisites: There are no preconditions

Course objectives: Introducing different definitions and approaches to the study of popular culture. Consideration of the relationship of popular culture to folklore and the artistic genres. Origin and significance of the phenomenon of popular culture in everyday life.

Course description: Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of popular culture. The relationship of popular culture to folklore, mass and high culture. Globalization and the phenomenon of popular culture. merchantability Formulative aspect as an important feature of popular culture. Analysis of certain genres.

Learning Outcomes: Introduction to the characteristics of formulating genres in popular culture and mastering the analysis of the phenomenon of popular and mass culture.

Literature/Reading:

• Dominic Strinati,An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture, Routledge, 2nd ed. 2004, 184 str.
• John Storey, Inveting Popular Cuture. From Folklore to Globalization, Blackwell, 2003, 1-45, 63-74, 107-120
• J.G.Cawelti,Concept of Formula in Study of Popular Culture, Journal of Popular Culture, vol.3,n.3, 1969: 381-390
• Joseph Arpad, Between Folklore and Literature: Popular Culture as Anomaly, JPC, 51-70
• Carl Malmgren, Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective and Crime Fiction, JPC, 115-135
• Džon Fisk, Popularna kultura, Clio, Beograd 2001, 8-30, 120-147
• J. G. Cawelti, Myth, Symbol and Formula, JPC, 8 (1), 1974: 1-9.
• Jelena Đorđević, Uvod, u Studije kulture, 11- 34. Beograd, 2008
• Bojan Žikić, Popularna kultura – nadkulturna komunikacija, EAP 7 (2), 2012, 315-341
• Bojan Žikić, Antropološko proučavanje popularne kulture, EAP 5 (2), 2010: 17-39
• Dubravka Đurić, Diskursi popularne kulture, 5-89. Beograd, 2011
• Ljiljana Gavrilović, Fan fiction i kolektivna kreativnost, 1-11
• Ljiljana Gavrilović, Čitanje naučne fantastike i (kao) etnografije i obrnuto, Antropologija 6, 2008, 19-33.
• Dragana Antonijević, Sanjaju li klonovi ljubav? Predstave o klonovima u popularnoj kulturi, EAP 7 (2), 2012, 359-380
• Ana Banić Grubišić, Obrok dana posle sutra. Predstave o hrani/ishrani u postapokaliptičnim filmovima. Etnoantropološki problemi 7(1), 2012, 185-212.
• Sajmon Frit, Dobra, loša, osrednja: odbrana popularne kulture od populista, u Studije kulture, (J. Đorđević, ur.), 359-375
• Stjuart Hol, Beleške o dekonstruisanju „popularnog“, u Studije kulture, (J. Đorđević, ur.), 317-328.
• Šon Nikson, Promene označavanja muževnosti: od „novog muškarca“ do „novog lada“, u Studije kulture, (J. Đorđević, ur.), 399-410
• Rolan Bart, Mit je govor , u Studije kulture, (J. Đorđević, ur.), 249-274
• Stjuart Hol, Kodiranje, dekodiranje, u Studije kulture, (J. Đorđević, ur.), 275-285
• Hortense Powdermaker, An Anthropologist Looks at the Movies. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1947, 254: 80-87.
• Murphy and Kraidy, Media Sudies, Introduction: Towards an Ethnographic Approach to Global Media Studies, 3-19
• John G. Cawelti, Popular Culture: Coming of Age? Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 10, No. 3/4, 1976, 165-182
• Fien Adriaens and Sofie van Bauwel, Sex and the City: A Postfeminist Point of View? Or How Popular Culture Functions as a Channel for Feminist Discourse, The Journal of Popular Culture, 2011
• Ien Ang, "Dalas" i ideologija masovne kulture, u Studije kulture (J. Đorđević ed.), Beograd 2008, 329-338