Seminar: Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I - Hot Stuff: American Popular Culture in the Long 1970s - Details

Seminar: Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I - Hot Stuff: American Popular Culture in the Long 1970s - Details

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Course name Seminar: Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I - Hot Stuff: American Popular Culture in the Long 1970s
Course number ANG.05272.04
Semester SoSe 2025
Current number of participants 26
maximum number of participants 24
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Monday, 07.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00, Room: Hörsaal III (R.1.31)[EA 26-27]
Pre-requisites Basismodul "Einführung in das Studium der angloamerikanischen Kulturwissenschaft" oder Basismodul "Kulturwissenschaft"
Learning organisation The shopping period is limited to week one. You must commit to the seminar by our second meeting.

!!Please do not double book this time slot!!
Performance record Studienleistung:
-Annotated bibliography (5-8 sources, ca. 2 pages)
-Film/music/art review (2 pages)
-Regular participation and contribution to class discussions

Modulleistung:
-Exposé for term paper (2 pages)
-Term paper: Primary source analysis (8-10 pages)
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch
SWS 2

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This seminar explores American popular culture during the transformative “long 1970s”—spanning from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Through discussion and analysis of film, television, music, and the arts, we will examine how popular culture (and counterculture) both reflected and influenced significant historical, political and social events of this pivotal era. Topics may include responses to space exploration, Vietnam War, Watergate, the energy crisis, economic upheaval, and the emergence of movements centered on feminisms, environmentalism, civil rights, and LGBTQ+ rights. We will critically engage with primary texts alongside selected secondary texts to better understand how (popular) culture serves as a reflection and catalyst for social change. Additionally, the course will focus on how to analyze primary documents systematically.

Primary texts may include:

Films: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Super Fly (1972), Enter the Dragon (1973), Jaws (1975), Carrie (1976), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979)

Television: Saturday Night Live (NBC's Saturday Night) (1975-present)

Text-based: excerpts from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975) and “The Combahee River Collective Statement” (1977)

Music: ambient, electronic, disco, and rock

Arts: architectural, environmental, feminist, land, pop, performance, photography

Selected reading material will be made available on StudIP and ILIAS. You are encouraged to get a head start by familiarizing yourself with the decade by reading/skimming through the following texts (available via the Steintor-Campus library/VPN):

Borstelmann, Thomas. The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality. Princeton UP, 2013.

Kaufman, Will. American Culture in the 1970s. Edinburgh UP, 2009.

Studienleistung:
-Annotated bibliography (5-8 sources, ca. 2 pages)
-Film/television/music/art review (2 pages)
-Regular participation and contribution to class discussions

Modulleistung:
-Exposé for term paper (2 pages)
-Term paper: Primary source analysis (8-10 pages)

NB: The shopping period is limited to week one. You must commit to the seminar by our second meeting. Please do not double book this time slot.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
  • The enrolment is possible from 11.03.2025, 00:00 to 14.04.2025, 23:59.
  • Enrolment is allowed for up to 1 courses of the admission set.
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