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Course Content |
| Week 1 |
2/24 Introduction |
| Week 2 |
3/3 Culture matters
Hall, Stuart (1980) “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms.” Media, Culture & Society 2: 57-72.
Williams, Raymond (1983) Introduction to Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Fontana Press, expanded edition, pp. 11-26.
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| Week 3 |
3/10 Time and Temporality
Crang, Mike (2011) Chapter 24, “Time.” In John A. Agnew and David N. Livingstone (eds.) Sage Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. London: Sage, pp. 331-343.
Duffy, Enda (2009) Introduction, “The Adrenalin Aesthetic: Speed as Culture.” In The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp. 1-16.
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| Week 4 |
3/17 Three takes on slow cinema
Lim, Song Hwee (2014) Introduction to Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 1-10.
Schoonover, Karl (2012) “Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema’s Laboring Body, the Political Spectator, and the Queer.” Framework 53 (1): 65-78.
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| Week 5 |
3/24 Space and Place
Agnew, John (2011) ”Space and Place.” In John Agnew and David Livingstone (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. Los Angeles and London: SAGE, pp. 316-330.
Mathews, Gordon (2011) Chapter 1, “Place.” In Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 7-55.
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| Week 6 |
3/31 Walking in the city
de Certeau, Michel (1988) “Walking in the City.” In The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 91-110.
Morris, Brian (2004) “What we talk about when we talk about ‘walking in the city’.” Cultural Studies 18 (5): 675-697.
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| Week 7 |
4/7 Midterm assignment
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| Week 8 |
4/14 Reading the city
Cole, Teju (2011) Open City. New York: Random House, pp. 3-21.
Cole, Teju (2012) “The City as Palimpsest.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOq2HWveVok |
| Week 9 |
4/21 Imagined cities
Benjamin, Walter (1935) “Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century.”
Sardar, Ziauddin (2000) The Consumption of Kuala Lumpur, London: Reaktion Books, pp. 75-123. |
| Week 10 |
4/28 Global cities: Hong Kong
Guest lecture by Sam Mak, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, NCHU
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| Week 11 |
5/5 Global cities: Seoul
Bae, Fiona (2022) Make Break Remix: The Rise of K-Style.
Yun, Jieheerah (2017) Globalizing Seoul, The City’s Cultural and Urban Change. Oxford and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-20.
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| Week 12 |
5/12 Guest lecture by Jaeho Kang, Department of Communication, Seoul National University
Kang, Jaeho (2025) “The Techno-Sublime of Media Spectacle: From Screen-Interface to Screen-Scape in Seoul’s DDP” , Society, Spaces, Screens, Sarah Bassett et.al. (eds.) AMPS Proceedings Series 41.1: 153-162
Kang, Jaeho (2022) “Whither Transnationality? Some Theoretical Challenges in Korean Wave Studies”, International Journal of Communication 16: 3310-3328.
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| Week 13 |
5/19 Culture as soft power
Chua, Beng Huat (2012) “Pop Culture as Soft Power.” In Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 119-143.
Lim, Song Hwee (2022) “Introduction: Cinema as Soft Power, Soft Power as Method.” In Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power: Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-23.
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| Week 14 |
5/26 Affect
Hemmings, Clare (2005) “Invoking Affect: Cultural Theory and the Ontological Turn.” Cultural Studies 19 (5): 548-567.
Williams, Raymond (1977) “Structure of Feeling.” In Marxism and Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 128-135.
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| Week 15 |
6/2 Inequality and Neoliberalism
Dorling, Danny (2015) “Conclusion: Towards a Fairer Society” and “Afterword.” In Inequality and the 1%. London and New York: Verso, pp. 159-193.
Teo, Yeoyenn (2015) “Differentiated Deservedness: Governance through Familialist Social Policy in Singapore.” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 3 (1): 73-93.
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| Week 16 |
Student presentations |
self-directed
learning |
02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.
03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.
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