Books
Barthes, Roland : Mythologies, 1993. Vintage: London . 150 pages.
Bourdieu, Pierre : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste Distinction, 1986. Routledge: London. The following 340 pages: xi-63, 97-193, 225-317, 396-484.
Huyssen, Andreas : After the Great Divide. Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, 1986. Indiana University Press. ISBN: 0-2532-0399-6. 120 pages: part 1 & 3. Note: The European edition of this book is out of print, so booksellers in Oslo may not be able to sell this book. The American edition is easily available from American booksellers on the Web.
Compendium
Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer : ”The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception” , 1997. London: Verso Classics. In Dialectic of Enlightenment.
Benjamin, Walter: ”The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility”, In Eiland, Howard and Michael W. Jennings (2002): Walter Benjamin. Selected writings vol. 3 1935- 1938.
Note on editions
Only Huyssen's book is originally written in English. Students should feel free to read the French and German originals of the other works, or the excellent Norwegian translations listed below, if they wish to.
Please note, however, that the exam will be given in English, so students might need to know the English translations of key terms.
Barthes, Roland. Mytologier 1957. Trans. Einar Eggen. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1975. 2nd. edition, 1991, 3rd edition 1999. Note: this edition includes chapters that are not in the English edition , and thus not strictly part of the curriculum.
Benjamin, Walter. Kunstverket i reproduksjonsalderen. Transl. Torodd Karlsen. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1975. 2nd edition, 1991.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinksjonen. 1979. Trans. Annick Prieur. Oslo: Pax, 1995. Note: this translation is abbreviated, so chapter 1 from page 63 on, ch. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 are missing. Students will have to read the missing parts in English or French.
Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. Kulturindustri. 1947. Trans. Arne Sundland. Oslo: Cappelen, 1969. 2nd. edition, 1991.