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The next two research seminars will be on the following themes: 13th March 2009
Institut du Monde Anglophone, 5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris Performing Masculinities & the Body
Performing Masculinities & Conflict/Power
12th June 2009
Institut du Monde Anglophone, 5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris Performing Masculinities & Popular Culture
Performing Masculinities & the Artist Each seminar will have a morning session devoted to discussions on theory and publications followed by individual presentations in the afternoon.
We are currently accepting proposals for these seminars from the project members. If you wish to join the research project please contact Dr Hélène Quanquin and Dr Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski.
Topics for discussion can include but are not limited to: Performing Masculinities & the Body
Performing Masculinities & Conflict/Power
Judith Butler’s contribution to gender theory
Embodied masculinity
History of masculinity (as a discipline)
Women's studies, gender studies, men's studies
War and gender
Hegemonic masculinity
Crisis of masculinity
Muscular Christianity
Male violence
Masculinism
Performing Masculinities & Popular Culture
Performing Masculinities & the Artist
Cultural Studies, Media Studies & Gender Studies
High & low culture and aesthetic theory
Pop Culture and aesthetic theory
Avant-garde & bohemian culture and aesthetic theory
Cultural theory
Performance and Reception Theory
Canonism & Mass media
Consumerism & Commercialism
Negation (Theodor Adorno)
Passivity
The camp
Primitivism
Infantilism
Passive/Active Essentialism/Constructivism
Additional list of keywords for the afternoon session
Rock Music / Guitar rock and the patriarchy
Music groups and soloists
Team sports and individual sports
Men behaving badly
The Canon and 'low' culture
Voyeurism
The camp
Infantilism
Consumerism and consumer products
Food
Advice columns
Representations of men and masculinity in: advertising, radio and television, comic strip, companies and the work place, films, music, magazines and the popular press
Selective Bibliography - White Boys, White Noise: Masculinities And 1980s Indie Guitar Rock (Matthew Bannister, Ashgate Popular and Folk Music, 2006)
- http://www.theory.org.uk/
- Philosophy of Modern Music (Theodor W. Adorno, Continuum, 2007)
- Essays on Music (Theodor W. Adorno, University of California, 2002)
- Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Stuart Hall, ed., Sage 1997)
- Questions of Cultural Identity, (Stuart Hall, ed., Sage 1996)
- The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, (Jurgen Habermas, Polity, 1990)
- Theodor W. Adorno, 1973-1986: Gesammelte Schriften, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp.
- Houston Baker, 1989: "Handling Crisis", paper read at the Symposium Cultural Literacy in the Media Age: The Clash of Values, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, August 1989.
- Roland Barthes, 1957: Mythologies, Paris: Editions du Seuil.
- Thomas L. Bonn, 1989: Heavy Traffic and High Culture. New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper in the Paperback Revolution, Carbondale/Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press.
- Pierre Bourdieu 1971: "Le marché des biens symboliques", in L'année sociologique 22:49-126.
- Pierre Bourdieu: Ce que parler veut dire. L'économie des échanges linguistiques, Paris: Fayard.
- Jim Collins, 1989: Uncommon Cultures. Popular Culture and Post-Modernism, Mew York/London: Routledge.
- Umberto Eco, 1986: Travels in Hyperreality, New York: Harcourt.
- Umberto Eco, 1988 (1964, 1978): The Structure of Bad Taste, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker.
- Charles Grivel, 1973: Production de l'intérêt romanesque, The Hague/Paris: Mouton.
- Jürgen Habermas, 1981: Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp.
- Tania Modleski, 1986: "The Terror of Pleasure. The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory", in Tania Modleski (ed.), Studies in Entertainment. Critical Approaches to Mass Culture, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 155-167.
- Chandra Mukerji & Michael Schudson, 1991 (eds.), Rethinking Popular Culture, University of California Press
- Thomas J. Roberts, 1990: An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction, Athens (Georgia)/London: University of Georgia Press.
- Clem Robyns, 1991: "Beyond the first dimension: recent tendencies in popular culture studies", in Joris Vlasselaers (Ed.) The Prince and the Frog, Leuven: ALW.
- Clem Robyns, 1995: "Defending the National Identity", In Andreas Poltermann (Ed.) Literaturkanon, Medienereignis, Kultureller Text. Berlin: Erich Schmidt.
- Andrew Ross, 1989: No Respect. Intellectuals and Popular Culture, New York/London: Routledge.
- Barbara Smith, 1988: Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory, Cambridge (Mass.)/London: Harvard University Press.
- Alan Swingewood, 1977: The Myth of Mass Culture, London: Macmillan.
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