Resisting the Society of the Spectacle: syllabus
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Frances Restuccia, Boston College
Week 1
Introduction
Freud, "Fetishism"
2 Week
Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
3 Week
Debord, "The Society of the Spectacle"
4 Week
Debord, "The Society of the Spectacle"
5 Week
Gide, "The Immoralist"
6 Week
Gide, "The Immoralist"
Mid-term break
7 Week
Kristeva "Intimate Revolt" (selections – the first five chapters and possible Part II)
PAPER DUE – NOV. 3 (5 pp.)
8 Week
Kristeva, "Intimate Revolt"
Haneke’s "Caché"
9 Week
Almodóvar, "Volver"
10 Week
Godard, "Contempt"
11 Week
Agamben, "Profanations"
12 Week
Agamben, "Profanations"
PAPER DUE – 10 pp. (at the end of this week)
Exams Week
