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This week will contrast historical and semiotic approaches to teen film as dominant modes of “genre studies”. Genre is a very important concept for cultural studies and teen film will be used here to consider formalist approaches to genre, for which teen film might be determined exclusively by its contents and thus not necessarily by any cultural context.
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This is useful in seeing, for example, how teen film appears in places and forms outside the most spectacularly visible mainstream American films discussed last week. We will also discuss scholarly debates about genre in this context, considering how different approaches to genre bring different films in under the “teen film” umbrella.
Examples: Donnie Darko (2001) and Akira (1988)
Length: 250 words
Key concept: genre
Task 2
Topic: Oprah in Oz: Is Globalization American?
In this week, we will examine the ways in which Oprah’s 2010 visit to Australia seems to epitomise what Joseph Nye has called the ‘soft power’ of identities, images and ideas in contemporary processes of globalisation. By analysing media reception of the visit and the show taped at Sydney Harbour, we will ask to whom does Oprah appeal in Australia and why?
How are Oprah’s race and gender as well as her celebrity persona and the neoliberal, therapeutic narratives of her show decoded in the Australian context? Finally, to what extent does Oprah’s visit and the media discourse surrounding it, affirm and/or trouble the notion that globalization is ultimately a form of US cultural and economic imperialism?
Example: Oprah episode in Sydney, air date: Dec. 14, 2010
Length: 250 words
Key concept: cultural globalization
Task 3
Topic:Remaking Asian Cinema: Genre, Gender, and the Global
In this week, we will continue to consider the role of the US in globalization, but this time by examining remakes of Asian horror movies, focusing on how the narrative and ideological structures of the Japanese film, Ringu are translated in the Korean and US remakes of the film. What social, economic and cultural factors have led to the current ‘remake craze’ in Hollywood?
How might we interpret this trend in light of the growing international popularity of non-western, and especially Asian-based, film and popular media cultures, such as manga and anime, Hong Kong action films, Korean TV dramas, and Bollywood musicals? To what extent do the cross-cultural flows between these various media suggest alternate forms of globalization?
Examples:Ringu (1998) and The Ring (2002)
Length: 250 words
Key concept: cross-cultural flows
