Department of Media Studies
Christ College, Bangalore
Certificate course in Cultural Studies
Objectives of the Paper
The paper intends to provide students with the opportunity to develop and critically applytheir knowledge and understanding of theoretical and critical debates in Cultural Studies,as well as of key historical developments in intellectual debates. Further, it will help themdevelop a range of skills in independent research, critical analysis, verbal and writtencommunication and other advanced transferable skills.
Paper content
Understanding Cultural Studies
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Womack, Kenneth. “Theorising Culture, Reading Ourselves”
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Miller, Hillis J. “Cultural Studies and Reading”
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Chambers, Iain. “Cities without Maps”
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Sinfield, Alan. “Art as Cultural Production”City
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Ravi S. Vasudevan
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“The Cities of Everyday Life”
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Nitin Govil. “The Metropolis and Mental Strife: The city in science fictioncinema”
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Joy Chatterjee. “Long Bus Drive”
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Veena Das. “Violence and Translation”
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Ole Bouman. “Hyper-architecture”
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Rana Dasgupta. “The Face of the Future: Biometric surveillance and progress”
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta. “Everyday Surveillance: ID cards, cameras and thedatabase of ditties”
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Sam de Silva. “Blind Intelligence”
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David Lyon. “Surveillance: After September 11, 2001”
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Lawrence Liang. “The Black and White (And Grey) of Copyright”
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Lawrence Liang. “Urban Transformations and Media Piracy”
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Lawrence Liang. “Obscenity, Decency and Morality”Cinema
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Understanding Comics
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Laura Mulvey. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”.
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Ravi S Vasudevan. “Urban Action Films”.
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Ashis Nandy. “Introduction: Indian Popular Cinema as the Slum’s Eye View of Politics”
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