MEDIA / THEORY

Lecture 8
Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, and The Savage Mind

Lecture 9
The Dynamics of Mythical Thinking: Bricolage, Classification and Transformation

Lecture 10
The Interlinked Dynamics of Mythical Thinking and Political Thinking: The Post-World War II US Experience

Lecture 11
Cognitive, Normative and Emotional Aspects of Myth and Post-1945 American Political Thinking

Lecture 12
Dominant Myths and the Production of Media

Lecture 13
Dominant Myths and the Consumption of Media – Media and the Consumption of Dominant Myths

Lecture 17
Kenneth Burke and the Structural Dynamics of Communication and Language

Lecture 18
Hierarchy, Image and The Structural Dynamics of Narrative and Story


WORLD POLITICAL ECONOMY

Lecture 13
The Structural Dynamics of the US-Centered World Political Economy: 1945–Present

Lecture 14
The Golden Age of the US-Centered WPE: 1945–1959

Lecture 15
US-Centered WPE: Trouble In Paradise: 1959–1973

Lecture 16
The Age of OPEC: 1973–1982

Lecture 17
The Rise of the PC Economy and The End of the Cold War: 1982–1989

Lecture 18
The US Triumphant and The Birth of the Internet Economy: 1989–2000


WESTERN CULTURAL HISTORY

Lecture 23
Reconciling the “Is” and the “Ought”: The Cultural Dynamics of the Post-WWII Era: 1945–1973

Lecture 24
Global Modernism: Liberal Decency After the Holocaust and Atom Bomb: 1945–1963

Lecture 25
60s/Cultural Revolution: Ten Years Still Shaking the World: 1963–1973

Lecture 26
Dazed and Confused: Stagflation, Cable TV, & the Crisis of Political/Cultural Liberalism: 1973 –1979

Lecture 27 – 3 CDs
Cold War Post-Modernism: Reagan, Identity Politics and The End of Commonality: 1979–1989

Lecture 28 – 5 CDs
Post-Modernism with a Human Face: Internet, Prosperity & Irony Amok: 1989–2000