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Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
BYN552 - Popular Culture Analyses II. SEMESTER 3 +0 6.0
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) PROF. DR. DENİZ KILIÇ
Mode of Delivery Face to face
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Prerequisites no-prerequisites
Courses Recomended
Recommended Resources Özer, Ömer ve Erdal Dağtaş (2011). Popüler Kültürün Hakimiyeti, Konya: Literatürk, ss. 11-54.Oskay, Ünsal (1982). “19. Yüzyılın Oluşturduğu Dünya- Rousseau, Baudelaire ve Melville’de Dış Gerçekliğin Algılanması”, 19. Yüzyıldan Günümüze Kitle İletişiminin Kültürel İşlevleri. Ankara: AÜ. S. B. F. Basın ve Yayın Yüksek Okulu, ss. 35-137.Fiske, John (1999). Popüler Kültürü Anlamak. Çev.: Süleyman İrvan. Ankara: Ark, ss. 35-88.Stevenson, Nick (2006). Medya Kültürleri. Çev.: Göze Orhon ve Barış Engin Aksoy. Ankara: Ütopya, ss. 150-175.Dağtaş, Banu (2008). “Türkiye’de Yaygın Televizyonlarda Tektipleşme ve Diziler: Tektipleşmiş Bir Zenginlik Göstergesi Olan Lüks Villaların Düşündürdükleri", İleti-ş-im, Sayı: 8 Yaz, 161-185. Dağtaş, Banu (2012). "Futbolda Tüketim Kültürü: Esstore ve ES ES Bonus Kart", Akdeniz İletişim, (16), ss. 28-43.Oktay, Ahmet (1993). Türkiye’de Popüler Kültür. İstanbul: Yapı Kredi.Cantek, Levent (2008). Cumhuriyetin Buluğ Çağı. İstanbul: İletişim. Gökalp, Emre (2007). "Türk Milliyetçiliği Söylem(ler)inin Spor Basınında Yeniden İnşası (1990-2002)," Kültür ve İletişim, Sayı: 10 (2), s. 9-62.Yarar, Betül (2008). “Politics of/and Popular Music: An Analysis of the History of Arabesk Music from the 1960s to the 1990s in Turkey, Cultural Studies, Volume 22, No:1, pp. 35-79 Özgür, İren (2006). “Arabesk Music in Turkey in the 1990s and Changes in National Demography, Politics, and Identity”, Turkish Studies, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 175-190. Tüzün Ateşalp, Selin ve Aygün Şen Telci (2014). “The Past as a Spectacle: The Magnificent Century”, Handbook of Research on the Impact of Culture and Society on the Entertainment Industry, Ed. Gülay Öztürk, IGI Global.
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Week - 1 History of populer culture, definitions of popular culture, Popular culture and other popular culture, mass culture and consumer culture
Week - 2 Marxisms: Classical Marxism, Frankfurt School, Althusserianism, Hegemony, Post-Marxism and Cultural Studies, Utopian Marxism, From Culturalism to Cultural Studies
Week - 3 Class and class struggle, Class and popular culture, Class in cultural studies, Class struggle, Consumption as class distinction, Class and popular culture
Week - 4 Structuralism and Post-structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes: Mythologies, Post-structuralism, Jacques Derrida, Discourse and Power: Michel Foucault, Panopticon
Week - 5 Postmodernism: The postmodern condition, postmodernism in the 1960s, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Fredric Jameson, Global postmodern.
Week - 6 Semiology and theoretical structure of semiology
Week - 7 Semiotic Theorists: Ferdinand de Saussure and Linguistics, Charles Sanders Peirce Semiotic Theory, Roland Barthes Connotation, Denotation, Umberto Eco and Semiotics,
Week - 8 Culture and Meaning: The Importance of Context in the Construction of Meaning
Week - 9 Meaning Formation in Text: Codes and Analysis
Week - 10 Linguistic and visual analyses based on semiotics in the fields of advertising, cinema and photography.
Week - 11 Semiotic Decoding and Analysis Examples with Contemporary Cases.
Week - 12 Semiotic Decoding and Analysis Examples with Contemporary Cases.
Week - 13 Semiotic Decoding and Analysis Examples with Contemporary Cases.
Week - 14 General Evaluation

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