Formative essay - book review

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Formative essay - book review

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• Thursday 19th March

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Replacement lecture 11.

• Willis Learning to Labour is covered in SOC1031A
• Week 11. How to read popular culture
• Why do people watch soap operas, horror films,
  and other popular genres. Are they escaping from
  reality, living in an illusory world, or just
  enjoying themselves and making money for
  Hollywood? What does the mass media do to culture
  and society? Do we live in a hyperreality where
  the images are more real than reality.

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• Reading
• Lyon, David (1999) Postmodernity. Open University
  Press, Buckingham. Chapter 4. Postindustrialism
  to postmodernity.
• Saukko, Paula (2003) Doing research in cultural
  studies an introduction to classical and new
  methodological approaches. London SAGE, Chapter
  2. http//www.sagepub.co.uk/upm-data/9516_010044ch
  2.pdf
• Studies
• Ang, Ien (1985). Watching Dallas soap opera and
  the melodramatic imagination translated by Della
  Couling. London New York Methuen, 791 ANG
• Radway, Janice A.( 1984) Reading the romance
  women, patriarchy and popular literature Chapel
  Hill London University of North Carolina
  Press,
• Paul Willis Profane Cultures 301.23 WIL