Society and Politics In Popular Culture 2105-ERASMUS-SOPO

Upon completion of the course the students will:
• Be able to define basic terms of cultural studies
• Be able to spot and discuss social and political issues present in popular culture texts
• Analyze texts of popular culture for socio-political issues
• Have knowledge in the field of contemporary popular culture

Two short assignments on Google Classroom.

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Recommended popular culture texts:
24, created by Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran. Season 1-9. 2001-2010, 2014. Imagine Television, 20th Century Fox Television. TV series.
A Bridge Too Far, directed by Richard Attenborough. 1977. United Artists and Joseph E. Levine Productions. 1977. Film.
American Gods, created by Bryan Fuller, Michael Green, seasons 1-3, Starz, 2017-2021.
Azzarello, Brian (w)., and J.G. Jones (a). “Comedian.” in Before Watchmen: Comedian, Rorschach, Brian Azzarello (w), J.G. Jones, Lee Bermejo (a), DC Comics: New York, 2013.
Black Mirror, created by Charlie Brooker, seasons 1-6, Channel 4, Netflix, 2011-2023.
Bodyguard, created by Jed Mercurio. 2018. World Productions, BBC. TV series.
Brexit: The Movie, directed by Martin Durkin. 2016. Wag TV. Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMxfAkxfQ0.
Brexit: The Uncivil War, directed by Toby Haynes. 2019. House Productions, Chanel 4. Film.
Brown, Dan. 2009. The Da Vinci Code, New York: Anchor Books.
Brubaker, Ed (w), and Steve Epting (a). 2007. Captain America Omnibus. Vol. 1. New York: Marvel Publishing.
Captain America: Civil War, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. 2016. Marvel Studios. Film.
Collateral, directed by S. J. Clarkson. 2018. BBC Two, Netflix. TV series.
Ennis, Garth (w), Peter Snejberg (a). 2009. “Dear Billy.” In The Complete Battlefields. Volume 2, Garth Ennis (w), Peter Snejberg (a). Mt. Laurel: Dynamite Entertainment.
Ferguson, John (w), Gary Welsh (a), and Tone Juskjaer (a). 2013. Saltire. Invasion. Dundee: Diamondsteel Comics.
Gaiman Neil. 2017. American Gods. London: Headline Publishing Group.
Game of Thrones, created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Seasons 1-8. 2011-2019. HBO. TV series.
The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polański. 2010. Summit Entertainment, Optimum Releasing. Film.
Harris, Robert. 2007. The Ghost. London: Hutchinson.
House of Cards, directed by Paul Seed. Season 1, 1990. BBC. TV series.
House of Cards, created by Beau Willimon. Seasons 1-6. 2013-2018. Netflix Original. TV series.
Joker, directed by Todd Phillips, 2019. Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films. Film.
Love Actually, directed by Richard Curtis. 2003. Universal Pictures. Film.
Millar, Mark (w), and Steve McNiven (a). 2007. Civil War. New York: Marvel Publishing.
Moore, Alan (w)., and Eddie Campbell (a). 2004. From Hell. Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Part. Marietta: Top Shelf Productions.
Moore, Alan (w)., and David Lloyd (a). 2008.V for Vendetta. New York: DC Comics.
Newman, Paul (w)., and John Tartaglione (a). August-October, 1964. John F. Kennedy: 1917-1963. New York: Dell Publishing.
Occupy Comics. 2013. #1-3. Black Mask Studios.
Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg, 1998. DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures. Film.
Spiegelman, Art (w&a). 2011. The Complete Maus. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Pantheon Books.
Straczynski, J. Michael (w)., and Adam Hughes (a). “Dr. Manhattan.” in Before Watchmen:
Night Owl, Dr. Manhattan, J. Michael Straczynski (w), Andy Kubert, Adam Hughes, Eduardo Risso (a), DC Comics: New York, 2013.
Tynion IV, James (w), 2021-2022. The Department of Truth. Vol. 1-3. Image Comics: Portland.
V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue. 2006. Warner Bros. Pictures. Film.
Vaughan, Brian K. (w), and Niko Henrichon (a). 2008. Pride of Baghdad. New York: DC Comics.
The War Game, directed by Peter Watkins, BBC, 1965.
Waters, Roger. The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), The Wall (1979), The Final Cut (1983), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), Amused to Death (1992). Albums’ lyrics. Online.
Wein, Len (w)., and Jae Lee (a). “Ozymandias.” in Before Watchmen: Ozymandias, Crimson Corsair, Len Wein, John Higgins (w), Jae Lee, John Higgins, Steve Rude (a), DC Comics: New York, 2013.
The X-Files. Created by Chris Carter. 1993-2002, Season 1-11. Ten Thirteen Productions, 20th Television, 20th Century Fox Television. TV series.
Years and Years, created by Russell T. Davies. 2019. Red Production Company, BBC One. TV series.

Essential Readings:
Alexopoulou, Sofia, and Antonia Pavli. 2021. “‘Beneath This Mask There Is More Than Flesh, Beneath This Mask There Is an Idea’: Anonymous as the (Super)Heroes of the Internet?” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 34, 237–264.
Bratich, Jack Z. 2008. Conspiracy Panics. Political Rationality and Popular Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press: 1–14.
Chapman, James. 2006. “The BBC and the Censorship of The War Game (1965).” Journal of Contemporary History 41 (1): 75–94.
Carroll, Siobhan. 2012. “Imagined Nation: Place and National Identity in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.” Extrapolation 53 (3): 307–326.
Conley, Donovan, and Benjamin Burrough. 2019. “Black Mirror, Mediated Affect and the Political.” Culture, Theory and Critique 60:2: 139–153.
Crick, Bernard. 2006. “Justifications of Violence.” The Political Quarterly 77 (4): 433-438.
Davidson, James F. 1961. “Political Science and Political Fiction.” American Political Science Review 55 (4): 851–860.
Dittmer, Jason. 2011. “Captain Britain and the Narration of Nation.” The Geographical Review 101: 71–87.
Driessens, Olivier. 2013. “The Celebritization of Society and Culture: Understanding the Structural Dynamics of Celebrity Culture.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 16 (6): 641–57.
Dzikrina, Naya Fauziam, and Ahmad Munjid. 2018. “The Clash of Culture in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.” Lexicon 5 (2): 139–151.
Escurignan, Julie, and Francis Allard-Huver. 2020. “It’s More Like an Eternal Waking Nightmare from Which There Is No Escape: Media and Technologies as (Digital) Prisons in Black Mirror.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture, edited by Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, Barbara Harmes, 455–472. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Foucault, Michel. 1977. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Transl. by Alan Sheridan. New York: Random House.
Gamble, Andrew. 2021. “The Brexit Negotiations and the Anglosphere.” The Political Quarterly 92 (1): 108–112,
Harris, Stephen. 2019. “The Joker to Guy Fawkes: Why Protesters around the World are Wearing the Same Masks.” The Conversation. November 13. https://thecon-versation.com/the-joker-to-guy-fawkes-why-protesters-around-the-world-are-wearing-the-same-masks-126458/.
Henderson, Alice, Charlie Jeffrey, Robert Liñera, Roger Scully, Daniel Wincott, and Richard Wyn Jones. 2016. “England, Englishness and Brexit.” The Political Quarterly 87 (2): 187–199.
Howley, Kevin. 2001. “Spooks, Spies, and Control Technologies in ‘The X-Files’.” Television & New Media 2 (3): 257–280.
George, David. 1988. “Distinguishing Classical Tyrannicide from Modern Terrorism.” The Review of Politics 50 (3): 390-419.
Giry, Julien, and Tika Pranvera. 2020. “Conspiracy Theories in Political Science and Political Theory.” In Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories, edited by Michael Butter, Peter Knight, 108–120. London and New York: Routledge.
Keller, James R. 2008. V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche. A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film. Jefferson, NC, London: McFarland & Company, Inc., chap. 1-2.
Kendrik, James. 2008. “Representing the Unrepresentable: 9/11 on Film and Television.” In Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History, edited by Peter C Rollins and John E O’Connor, 511–28. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press.
Kogelmann, Brian. 2016. “Frank Underwood Gives the Ideal Society a Reality Check.” In House of Cards and Philosophy: Underwood’s Republic, edited by J Edward Hackett, 31–41. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell.
Kohns, Oliver. 2013. “Guy Fawkes in the 21st Century. A Contribution to the Political Iconography of Revolt.” Image [&] Narrative 14 (1): 89–104.
Lewandowski, Wojciech. 2013. “Scotsmen Versus Englishmen: Ancient Antagonisms as Depicted in a Belgian Comic Book.” In Facets of Scottish Identity, edited by Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymańska, 145–152. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper.
Lewandowski, Wojciech. 2016. “SuperScots. Supeheroes and Scottish Identity.” In Scottish Culture: Dialogue and Self-Expression, edited by Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymańska, 380–388. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper.
Littmann, Greg. 2012. “Maester Hobbes Goes to King’s Landing.” In Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper than Swords, edited by Henry Jacobi, 5–18. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Littmann, Greg. 2016. “American Machiavelli.” In House of Cards and Philosophy: Underwood’s Republic, edited by J Edward Hackett, 81–91. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell.
O’Mathuna, Donal P. 2008. “The Ethics of Torture in 24: Shockingly Banal.” In 24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack, edited by Jennifer Weed Hart and Ronald Weed, 91–104. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Prince, Michael J. 2015. “‘Whose Side Are You on?’: Negotiations between Individual Liberty and Collective Responsibility in Millar and McNiven’s Marvel Civil War.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 6 (2): 182–192.
Prooijen, Jan-Willem van, and Karen M Doughlas. 2017. “Conspiracy Theories as Part of History: The Role of Societal Crisis Situation.” Memory Studies 10 (3): 323–333.
Rollins, Peter C. 2008. “Using Popular Culture to Study the Vietnam War.” In Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History, edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press.
Ryan, John. 2017. “If You Didn’t Laugh, You’d Cry... Brexit and the Renaissance of British Humour.” LSE Brexit. October 4. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/10/04/if-you-didnt-laugh-youd-cry-brexit-and-the-renaissance-of-british-humour/.
Schulzke, Martin. 2012. “Playing the Game of Thrones: Some Lessons from Machiavelli.” Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper than Swords, edited by Henry Jacobi, 33–48. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Scott, Cord. 2007. “Written in Red, White, and Blue: A Comparison of Comic Book Propaganda from World War II and September 11.” The Journal of Popular Culture 40 (2): 325–343.
Sobolewska, Maria, and Robert Ford. 2020. “Brexit and Britain’s Culture Wars.” Political Insight, no. 3: 4–7.
Stohl, Michael. 2006. “The State as Terrorist: Insights and Implications.” Democracy and Security 2 (1): 1-25.
Storey, John. 2009. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. An Introduction. Pearson. Longman: 1–16.
Street, John. 2004. “Celebrity Politicians: Popular Culture and Political Representation.” British Journal of Politics & International Relations 6: 435–52.
Street, John. 2000. “Prime Time Politics: Popular Culture and Politicians in the UK.” The Public 7 (2): 75–90.
van Zoonen, Liesbet. 1998. “A Day at the Zoo: Political Communication, Pigs and Popular Culture.” Media, Culture & Society 20 (2): 183–200.
Watt, Kenn. 2018. “Wired: Man Against Fire” and the Revolution in Military Affairs.” Supernatural Studies 4 (2): 42–60.
Weaver, Simon. 2019. “Brexit Tricksters and the Reconstruction of Taboo: Populism, Irony and Satire in Post-referendum Britain.” Comedy Studies 10 (2): 154–166.

Further Readings:
Akella, Shastri. 2016. “’We are Not in Control Anymore’: Technological Possessions Facilitated by Simulacra in the Posthuman Reality of ‘Hated in the Nation’.”, Supernatural Studies 4 (2): 11–26.
Altheide, David L. 2010, “Fear, Terrorism, and Popular Culture”, In Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the ‘War on Terrorism’, edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell, London: Bloomsbury Academic: 11–22.
Archer, Alfred, and Amanda Cawston. 2021. “Celebrity Politics and Democratic Elitism.” Topoi. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-021-09763-0.
Archer, Neil. 2020. Cinema and Brexit: The Politics of Popular English Film. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Ashcroft, Richard, and Mark Bevir. 2016. “Pluralism, National Identity and Citizenship: Britain After Brexit.” The Political Quarterly 87 (3): 355–359.
Bainbridge, Caroline. 2021. “Cracking Up: Joker and the Mediatisation of the Arse-end of the World.” New Review of Film and Television Studies, 19 (1): 54–64.
Barker, Chris. 2002. Making Sense of Cultural Studies. Central Problems and Critical Debates. London-Thousand Oaks-New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Bauman, Zygmunt, and David Lyon. 2012. Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation. Malden: Polity Press.
Bratich, Jack Z. 2008. Conspiracy Panics. Political Rationality and Popular Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Brooker, Charlie, Annabel Jones, and Jason Arnopp. 2018. Inside Black Mirror. New York: Random House.
Butter, Michael. 2020. “Conspiracy Theories in American History.” In Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories, edited by Michael Butter, Peter Knight, 648–659. London and New York: Routledge
Chapman, James. 2007. “Re-Presenting War: British Television Drama-Documentary and the Second World War.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 10 (1): 13–33.
Chou, Mark. 2014. “Democrats Against Democracy.” Cultural Politics 10 (2): 163–81.
Dawe, Ian. 2013. “Lee Harvey Oswald: a Comics Villain?” Sequart Organization. November 20. http://sequart.org/magazine/34564/lee-harvey-oswald-a-comics-villain/.
Dean, Jonathan, and Phoenix Andrews. 2021. “Celebritization from Below: Celebrity, Fandom, and Anti-Fandom in British Politics.” New Political Science 43 (3): 320–338.
Di Liddo, Annalisa. 2009. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi: 111-125.
Dillinger, Johaness. 2015. “Tyrannicide from Ancient Greece and Rome to the Crisis of the Seventeen Century.” In The Routledge History of Terrorism, edited by Randall D. Law, 15–27. London–New York: Routledge.
Dittmer, Jason. 2005. “Captain America’s Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post 9/11 Geopolitics.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95: 626‑643. Dawe, Ian. 2013. “JFK: Comic Book Hero.” Sequart Organization. November 22. http://sequart.org/magazine/35074/jfk-comic-book-hero/.
Eberl, Jakob-Moritz, Robert A. Huber, and Esther Greussing. 2021. “From Populism to the ‘Plandemic’: Why Populist Believe in COVID-19 Conspiracies.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 31 sup 1: 272–284.
Edensor, Tim. 2002. National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Fiske, John. 1995. Understanding Popular Culture. London-New York: Routledge.
Galimberti, Jacopo. 2021. “Democracy and Masks. Towards an Iconology of the Faceless Crowd.” European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes 4 (1): 211–35.
Goodnow, Trischa, and James J. Kimble, eds. 2016. The 10 Cent War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Goodwin, Matthew J. 2016. “Oliver Heath, The 2016 Referendum, Brexit and the Left Behind: An Aggregate-level Analysis of the Result.” The Political Quarterly 87 (3): 323–332.
Granville, Shannon. 2009. “Downing Street’s Favourite Soap Opera: Evaluating the Impact and Influence of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.” Contemporary British History 23 (3): 315–36.
Gray, Maggie. 2010. “‘A Fistful of Dead Roses...’: Comics as Cultural Resistance: Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s «V for Vendetta».” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 1 (1): 31-49.
Habermann, Ina, ed. 2020. The Road to Brexit: A Cultural Perspective on British Attitudes to Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Hagley, Annika, and Michael Harrison. 2014. “Fighting the Battles We Never Could: The Avengers and Post-September 11 American Political Identities.” PS Political Science & Politics, 47 (1): 120–124.
Hamilton, Caitlin, and Laura J. Shepherd. 2016. Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age. Abibgton & New York: Routledge.
Hart, Jennifer Weed. 2008. “President Palmer and the Invasion of China: The Beginning of a Just War.” In 24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack, edited by Jennifer Weed Hart and Ronald Weed, 57–66. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Heywood, Andrew. 2017. Political Ideologies: An Introduction. London: Palgrave: 137–162, 194–218.
Hoyer, Anne. 2009. “National Identity in a Popular Scottish Comic.” Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education 2 (2): 115–124
Hurka, Thomas. 2005. “Proportionality in the Morality of War.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 33 (1): 34–66.
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Keller James R. 2015. “The Vice in Vice President: House of Cards and the Morality Tradition.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 43 (3): 111–120.
Kellner, Douglas. 2010. Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Knight, Peter. 2008. “Outrageous Conspiracy Theories: Popular and Official Responses to 9/11 in Germany and the United States.” New German Critique 35 (1): 165–93.
Kowalski, Dean A. 2008. “R for Revolution. Hobbes and Locke on Social Contracts and Scarlett Carsons.” In Homer Simpson Goes to Wasington. American Politics through Popular Culture, edited by Joseph J. Foy, 19-40. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.
Larsson, Simon, and Markus Lundström. 2020. “Anarchy in the Game of Thrones.” Neohelicon 47 (1): 117–29.
Leal, Andres Bartolome. 2015. “Strangers in a Strange Land: Cinema, Identity and the Modern Nation-State in Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer.” ATLANTIS. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 37 (2): 119–136.
Lewandowski, Wojciech. 2020. “Intertextuality and the Depiction of Ideological Conflicts: The Case of ‘V For Vendetta’.” The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies 2: 85-100.
Lewis, John E. 2012. The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies. London: Constable & Robinson.
McKenna, Tony. 2015. Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective. London, New York: Palgrave: 134–140.
McKenna, Tony. 2019. “Behind the Black Mirror: The Limits of Orwellian Dystopia.” Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory 47 (2): 365–376.
McSweney Terrence, and Stuart Joy, eds. 2019. Through the Black Mirror: Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Merk, Mandy. 2015. “Masked Men: Hacktivism, Celebrity and Anonimity.” Celebrity Studies 6(3): 272–287.
Milkoreit, Manjana. 2019. “Pop-Cultural Mobilization: Deploying Game of Thrones to Shift US Climate Change Politics.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 32 (1): 61–82.
Miller, Toby, ed. 2015. The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture, London & New York: Routledge.
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Permatasari, Shita Dewi Ratih. 2020. “The Altruistic Side of Arthur Fleck as the Main Character in Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’ (2019).” JHSS (Journal of Humanities and Social Studies) 4 (1): 36–40.
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van Zoonen, Liesbet. 2007. “Audience Reactions to Hollywood Politics.” Media, Culture & Society 29 (4): 531–547.
van Zoonen, Liesbet, and Dominic Wring. 2012. “Trends in Political Television Fiction in the UK: Themes, Characters and Narratives, 1965–2009.” Media, Culture & Society 34 (3): 263–279.
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Young, Richard. 2017. “The ‘Real Victims’ of the Vietnam War: Soldier Versus State in American Comic Books.” The Journal of Popular Culture 50 (3): 561–584.

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