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This class aims at investigating how encounters with ‘American culture’ have shaped European identities since WWII. Sites of European encounters with ‘American’ popular culture span literary and cultural texts (e.g. novels, short stories, plays, films, TV series), corporate mass culture (e.g. Social Networks, technological products or fashion items) as well as countercultural phenomena (e.g. social movements). In our class, in other words, we want to look at popular culture on the move, that is analyze how, by whom, and to what purposes and effects ‘American’ texts/products/practices have been appropriated and transferred to local contexts in Europe and how the significance of place, especially of the category of the national, has changed in the process.
Course Readings:
There will be a course reader, which you can pick up at the NamLitCult office. |
