社会・制度Ⅲ(PEAK)

Week 1 Introduction Week 2 What is cultural studies? Graeme Turner. 2003. Chapter 1. The idea of cultural studies. British Cultural Studies: An introduction. Routledge: 10-32. Week3 　 Analysing texts and contexts Graeme Turner. 2003. Chapter 3. Texts and contexts. British Cultural Studies: An introduction. Routledge: 71-108 　 Week4 Analysing ren’ai dorama (Japanese love drama) as a text Eva Tsai. 2004. Empowering Love: The Intertextual Author of Ren'ai Dorama. In Iwabuchi Koichi (ed) Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas. Hong Kong University Press: 43-68. Week 5 Audience studies Graeme Turner. 2003. Chapter 4. Audiences. British Cultural Studies: An introduction. Routledge: 109-142 Week 6 Asian cultural waves and differences of audience Jonghoe Yang. (2012). The Korean Wave (Hallyu) in East Asia: A Comparison of Chinese, Japanese, and Taiwanese Audiences Who Watch Korean TV Dramas. Development and Society, 41(1), 103–147. http://www.jstor.org/***** Week7 Culture and class struggles John Storey. 2021. Chapter 7 Class and class struggle. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: Introduction. Routledge Week 8 Class and fashion in Japan: a case of Kimono consumption Stephanie Assmann (2008) Between Tradition and Innovation: The Reinvention of the Kimono in Japanese Consumer Culture, Fashion Theory, 12:3, 359-376 Week 9 Marxism approaches and ideology of cultures Graeme Turner. 2003. Chapter 6. Ideology. British Cultural Studies: An introduction. Routledge: 166-195 Week 10 History of cinema consumption and democratisation of postwar Japan Coates, J. (2017) Socializing the audience: Going to the cinema in post-war Japan. Participations, 14 (2). pp. 590-607. Week 11 The materiality of media and culture John Storey. 2021. Chapter 11 The materiality of popular culture. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: Introduction. Routledge Week 12 The materiality of media and culture Rayna Denison. 2018. Anime’s distribution worlds: Formal and information distribution in the analogue and digital eras. In Fabienne Darling-Wolf (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media, Routledge, pp. 403-418. Week 13: Cultural studies in Asia Michael Dutton. 2009. Asian Cultural Studies: Recapturing the Encounter with the Heterogeneous in Cultural Studies. Chris Berry, Nicola Liscutin, and Jonathan D. Mackintosh (eds.) Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia: What a Difference a Region Makes. Hong Kong University Press. pp.37-49.

This course consists of lectures, discussions and student presentation. This course requires students to make at least one presentation (10-15 minutes) summarising a reading assignment in English to the class and to actively participate in class as well as submitting a final term paper (1500-1700 words). You can download reading assignments via UTOL.

Class attendance and participation: 30% Class Presentation: 30% Term’s essay: 40%

You need to read a reading assignment each week in advance for class discussions.