CULTURAL STUDIES AND BRAZIL
SYLLABUS
** homework readings are due the next class day unless otherwise noted
January / February / March / April / May
JANUARY
Thurs 20
Introductions
Homework:
BRAZIL READER - Introduction and Chapter I
Mon 24
The Cannibal
Homework:
Arens - "The Man-Eating Myth" (e-reserves)
Thurs 27
Screening: "How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman"
in SPRAGUE LIBRARY, downstairs, Room 31
Homework:
Sadlier - "The Politics of Adaptation" (e-reserves)
Mon 31
Screening: "How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman"
in SPRAGUE LIBRARY, downstairs, Room 31
Homework:
Parker: "Myths of Origin" (e-reserves)
FEBRUARY
Thurs 3
Discussion of "How Tasty"
Homework:
BRAZIL READER - Chapter II
Mon 7
Discussing myths of origin
Homework:
Write Project 1
Thurs 10
Workshop
Homework:
Write Project 1
Read Capoeira Angola from Salvador - Smithsonian (e-reserves)
Mon 14
Capoeira Introduction
Homework:
Finish Project 1
See video footage of
CAPOEIRA:
Sample One / Sample Two
Thurs 17
** Project 1 DUE **
Capoeira
Homework:
Barbara Browning - "Headspin" (e-reserves)
BRAZIL READER - Chapter III
Mon 21
Introduction to Carmen Miranda
Homework:
Clark: "Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard" (e-reserves)
Adorno - "Culture Industry: Englightenment as Mass Deception" (e-reserves)
Thurs 24
Carmen Miranda: The Politics of Tutti-Frutti Hats
Homework:
Greenblatt - "Culture" (e-reserves)
Veloso - "Carmen Mirandadada" (e-reserves)
BRAZIL READER - Chapter IV
Mon 28
Carmen Miranda
Homework:
Write Project 2
MARCH
Thurs 3
Culture Industry and Carmen
Homework:
Write Project 2
Mon 7
Caetano
Homework:
Work on Project 2
Check out this article on Helio Oiticia's "Parangole" Art
BRAZIL READER - Chapter V
Thurs 10
Parangolé
Carnaval Music
Homework:
BRAZIL READER - Chapter IX
Work on Project 2
Mon 14
SPRING BREAK
Thurs 17
SPRING BREAK
Mon 21
Screening of ORFEU downstairs in Sprague
Homework:
Perrone - Essay on Orfeu (e-reserves)
Parker: "The Carnivalization of the World" (e-reserves)
Thurs 24
Screening of ORFEU downtairs in Sprague
Homework:
** FINISH PROJECT 2 **
Mon 28
** PROJECT 2 DUE TODAY **
Discussion of Orfeu
Homework:
Browning - "Samba: The Body Articulate" (e-reserves)
Rohter - "Carnival in Rio Is Dancing
to More Commericial Beat" (e-reserves)
Thurs 31
Discussion of Carnaval
Homework:
BRAZIL READER - Chapter VI
APRIL
Mon 4
Discussion of Chapter VI
Homework:
BRAZIL READER - Read Chapter VII (Race and Ethnic Relations)
Thurs 7
Discussion of Chapter VII (Race and Ethnic Relations)
Homework:
BRAZIL READER - Read Chapter VIII (Realities)
Mon 11
Discussion of Chapter VIII (Realities)
Homework:
Salgado - Photographs One, Two, and Three
Research for Project 4
(you need to get an early start)
Thurs 14
Discussion of Salgado's photographs
Homework:
Rubem Fonseca (on-line) - "The Art of Walking
the Streets of Rio de Janeiro"
Also read "Mayor Orders Billboard Shacks Destroyed" p441 Brazil Reader
Mon 18
Discussion of Fonseca's story
Homework:
Work on Project 4
Thurs 21
"Isle of Flowers" screening and discussion
LUXO/LIXO discussion
Homework:
Regina Celia Colonia (on-line) - "Copacabana from 5 to 7"
Bring poems (on-line) to class
Mon 25
Discussion of Poem
I'll introduce our website for the on-line conversation
Homework:
Project 3: on-line conversation
Work on Project 4
Thurs 28
Workshop
Homework:
Project 3: on-line conversation
Work on Project 4
MAY
Mon 2
To be announced
Homework:
Work on Project 4 (due on day of final exam)