Authenticity and Perversity in Contemporary American Movies
SOC 307
Fall 2021
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This course will examine scholarly and popular conceptions of sincerity & perversity; authenticity & inauthenticity in contemporary American movies. How do notions of authenticity function within contemporary culture? What are the various inauthentic others to which authenticity is juxtaposed? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: SOC151 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
14 Movies including THE MATRIX, AVATAR, THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Karl Marx, ECONOMIC & PHILOSOPHICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Theodore Adorno, THE JARGON OF AUTHENTICITY
Jean Baudrillard, SIMULACRA AND SIMULATION
Donna J. Haraway, SIMIANS, CYBORGS, AND WOMEN
N. Katherine Hayles, HOW WE BECAME POSTHUMAN
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly film analysis, weekly reading journals, final paper. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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| Instructor(s): Cutler,Jonathan Times: ...W... 07:10PM-10:00PM; Location: BOGH113; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 10 | JR major: 9 | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: 0 |
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