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September 9-21: Introduction to Economics in Popular Film: Economics, Epistemology, Consciousness, & Exploitation (film: The Matrix, will be shown at 7PM, Monday, 19 September -- attendance is mandatory) Reading from Economics in Popular Film
Read chapters 1 and
2 of Knowledge and Class (complete chapter 1
prior to the 12 September meeting, complete first 62
pages before 14 September meeting, and complete
entire assignment prior to the 19 September meeting) Part I: Identifying Economic Processes in Film September 21-28: Comparative Economic Systems (Distinguishing Class Processes: feudalism versus capitalism): (film: Matewan, will be shown at 7PM, Monday, 26 September -- attendance is mandatory) Read
chapters
2, 3, and 4 of Boundary Read chapter 3 of
Resnick and Wolff, Knowledge and Class. Read the entire chapter
prior to the 21 September meeting (without taking notes), then reread with
notes and questions for the 26 September meeting. Matewan
Essay by Bernice Clark The
Feudal Society
of Matewan by Ramla Gabriel Matewan and
Norma
Rae---Feudalism and Capitalism: Examined List
of Past Student Essays on Matewan
September 28-October 5: The Wages of Sin: Identifying the political, cultural, and economic conditions shaping the capitalist enterprise (film: Norma Rae, will be shown at 7PM, Monday, 3 October -- attendance is mandatory.) Read chapter
4 of Resnick and Wolff, Knowledge and Class. Read to page 192
prior to the 28 September meeting and complete chapter prior to the 3
October meeting. Racism and Capitalist Accumulation Norma
Rae Essay by Sarah Cumbie First Paper Due on Thursday, 6 October by 1PM. No time extensions will be granted. Part II: Free Market Slavery, Primitive Accumulation of Capital, and Economic Hit Men 12 October-26 October
(film: The Mission will be
shown at 7PM, Monday, 17 October and Men with Guns or
Missing will be shown at
7PM, Monday, 24 October -- attendance at both films is mandatory)
Read Marx's chapter on The Modern Theory of
Colonisation
Men
with Guns Essay by Kate Flewelling
Learning Guide to The Mission
Second Paper Due on
Thursday, October 27th by 1PM. Part III:
The
Anti-Capitalist Roots of American Culture: The Tradition of
Self-employment November 7-14:
Self-employment and the Outsider : (films: Milagro Beanfield
War will be
shown at 7PM, Monday, 7 November and Mississippi Masala will be
shown at 7PM, Monday, 14 November -- attendance at both films is
mandatory). Re-read chapter 3
of
Resnick and Wolff, Knowledge and Class, and think about how one
would need to alter the argument to fit self-employment, instead of
capitalist class processes, as internal organizing relationship of the
enterprise. Think about the self-employed characters in the films and
what would be required in surplus product and surplus value flows to
reproduce their positions as self-employed producers.
Third Essay Due on November 28th, start of class. Part IV: The Rationality of
Environmental Destruction: Why Externalities are Integral to the
Internal Dynamics of Capitalism
November 28-December 14: Profit Maximization and Externalities (films: Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action) Introduction to a Post-structuralist View of the Firm Profile of Erin
Brockovich from the Law Offices of Masry & Vititoe Please note that the professor reserves the right to alter the above film schedule, upon discussion with the students in the course.
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