Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

See "Learning activities " and "Syllabus".

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.2. Learning tasks

• Theoretical lectures.
• Practical lectures.
• Individual work.
• Personal study.
• Assessment activities.

5.3. Syllabus

Unit I: Background information concerning mass culture: psychoanalysis, critical theories and functionalism. Culture discontent. Two critical perspectives: Horkheimer and Adorno and Benjamin/Kracauer. The case of Walter Benjamin. A contemporary reading: David Harvey.

Unit II: Mass culture and communication in the age of late capitalism: Fredric Jameson. Postmodernity: Lyotard, Jameson and Harvey. Late structuralism and post-structuralism: Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Mass culture and technique: Vilém Flusser.

Unite III: Networks and mass culture. Víctor Silva and Rodrigo Browne; Mass culture and culture; Film and cultural crisis in La Dolce Vita. A figure of mass culture: the paparazzi. Film as mass culture: neorealism and La Dolce Vita. La Dolce Vita, mass culture and the city.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

[BB: Bibliografía básica / BC: Bibliografía complementaria]

• [BB] Trynka, Paul. Starman.|lEspañol : David Bowie : Starman : la biografía definitiva / Paul Trynka ; traducción de María Pildain Parra . 1ª ed. Barcelona : Alba, 2011