16.7 2nd and 3rd year Ken Gelder. Second semester One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• understand key aspects of the history, concepts and theories important to popular culture;
• be capable of producing analytical studies of specific instances of contemporary popular cultural forms;
• have developed the ability to analyse and engage with distinctions and commonalities between forms of popular culture and the dynamics and dimensions of broader cultural practices;
• appreciate the importance of power, access, audience, taste and subjectivity in relation to the analysis of popular culture.

This subject will read a number of contemporary popular cultural events or practices, alongside or against popular cultural theory. Written work of not more than 5,000 words, or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text. Barthes R Mythologies Paladin. Storey J Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader Harvester Wheatsheaf. Course reader available from the department. Film: Thelma and Louise; The Lost Boys. TV: Excerpts from selected soaps, MTV segments; extracts from other media 16.7 2nd and 3rd year Ken Gelder. Second semester One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• understand key aspects of the history, concepts and theories important to popular culture;
• be capable of producing analytical studies of specific instances of contemporary popular cultural forms;
• have developed the ability to analyse and engage with distinctions and commonalities between forms of popular culture and the dynamics and dimensions of broader cultural practices;
• appreciate the importance of power, access, audience, taste and subjectivity in relation to the analysis of popular culture.

This subject will read a number of contemporary popular cultural events or practices, alongside or against popular cultural theory. Written work of not more than 5,000 words, or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text. Barthes R Mythologies Paladin. Storey J Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader Harvester Wheatsheaf. Course reader available from the department Film: Thelma and Louise; The Lost Boys. TV: Excerpts from selected soaps, MTV segments; extracts from other media 16.7 Ken Gelder. Second semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• understand key aspects of the history, concepts and theories important to popular culture;
• be capable of producing analytical studies of specific instances of contemporary popular cultural forms;
• have developed the ability to analyse and engage with distinctions and commonalities between forms of popular culture and the dynamics and dimensions of broader cultural practices; and
• appreciate the importance of power, access, audience, taste and subjectivity in relation to the analysis of popular culture.

This subject will read a number of contemporary popular cultural events or practices, alongside or against popular cultural theory. Written work of not more than 5,000 words, or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text. Barthes R Mythologies Paladin. Storey J Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader Harvester Wheatsheaf. Course reader available from the Department. Film: Thelma and Louise The Lost Boys. TV: Excerpts from selected soaps, MTV segments extracts from other media