Sumários
First classroom debate: "Buffalo Bill". Final decision on debate participation. Representative men, the masses, the dime nove, the penny press.
3 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
First classroom debate: "Buffalo Bill".
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/10/debate-2-for-buffalo-bill-filipe.html
Final decision on debate participation.
Representative men, the masses, the dime novel, the penny press (with reference to the anthology's sample "Buffalo Bill: From Boyhood to Manhood" by Col Ingraham.
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/09/representative-men-and-masses.html
Semiotics and Reading. Analysing "Nostalgia Mongering at City Walk" (cont.) Image analysis and multimodality
28 Setembro 2016, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Semiotics and Reading: Peirce and the category of "the interpretant":
Analysing "Nostalgia Mongering at City Walk" (cont.)
Buffalo Bill, the man (William F. Cody) and the Legend (King of the Bordermen)
Image analysis and multimodality: Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull:
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/09/homework-for-sep-28.html
The semiotic method. Active reading strategies and their application to the essay "Nostalgia Mongering at City Walk". Main arguments and keywords.
26 Setembro 2016, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
The semiotic method: the sign (Saussurre), the symbol (Peirce) and its political import (Barthes). Abduction, assumptions and overdetermination.
Active reading strategies and their application to the essay "Nostalgia Mongering at City Walk" by Joshua Keim:
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/09/homework-for-september-26-essay.html
Main arguments and keywords: post-industrial capitalism; animus; retail therapy; American Dream; frontier myth; Manifest Destiny, etc.
Underlying assumptions: gender coding and the author's assumption that the prospective buyers of Vintage Barbie Brides must be "divorcees".
Definitions of culture and pop culture - feedback on homework; Pop Culture vs. Pop Art.
21 Setembro 2016, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Definitions of culture and pop culture - feedback on homework:
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/09/homework-for-sept-24-why-pop-culture.html
The questionable universality of American (or US?) Pop Culture; globalization vs. folk culture.
Pop culture (immediate, for profit and entertainment) and pop art (blurring of high and low culture; multiple interpretative layers).
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/09/lincoln-in-dalivision-salvador-dali-1977.html