American Culture in the 1960s – 2021-22

Written exams are offered IN PERSON ONLY. However, if you have tested positive for Covid in the 14 days before the exam and have not yet tested negative, remote arrangements will be made for you. If you are under these circumstances, email me with FULL DOCUMENTATION before the exam and you will receive all necessary instructions.

• Written exams are administered via Moodle ( https://elearning.unito.it/lingue/course/view.php?id=1145: make sure you read and fully understand all details BEFORE the exam.
• Make sure you have your unito CREDENTIALS and ID with you at all times during the exam.
• Make sure you try to log on to the course Moodle page BEFORE the exam, to make sure all is in working order.

Also, make sure you read my WRITTEN EXAM REQUIREMENTS well before the exam, at THIS LINK.

Exam scores will be posted on this blog or sent to you via email approx 1 week after the exam.

A.C.

In week 9 of my undergrauate courses, I invite students to give presentations on cultural texts (books, people, songs, films, photographs, etc.) that bear on the course materials but have not been addressed during the course directly.

For this class, the following presentations have been offered (in order of appearence):

Thursday, April 21st

Alice Balconi, “The Concept of Love in The Fire Next Time“

Elena Arcangeli, “Chains Against Rights: Bobby Seale’s Case in The ‘Chicago 7’ Trial”

Carlotta Cacciatori, “‘Casualties of War:’ Rape as an Instrument of Domination in the Vietnam War”

Sonia Losurdo, “Ella Baker: an «Invisible» Leader in the Civil Rights Movement”

Giulia Diemoz, “To Kill a Mockingbird as a Case Study for American Racial Prejudice”

Arianna Cavallucci, “The Stonewall Inn. More than Just a Bar”

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Friday, April 22nd

Marianna Giordana, “David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’: Automation and Alienation in Opposition to the Space Fever”

Samuel Frank, “1960s Consumer Culture as Represented in ‘(I Can’t get No) Satisfaction’ by the Rolling Stones”

Elena Dominici, “Music in the Civil Rights Movement. The Role of ‘We Shall Overcome'”

Sara Cauda, “‘Saigon Execution’: a Photograph that Changed the Vietnam War”

Claudio Di Michele, “CCR’s ‘Fortunate Son’: The Draft as Not the Great Equalizer”

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This week we also heard from M. Ilaria Tonelli and Stefano Gabbiani, authors of “Chasing the Ghost of the Lung Block” – trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03MDDyWdrUY&ab_channel=StefanoMorello

Cristina Di Maio (Univ. Torino): “A Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Liberal and Radical Feminist Politics in the 1960s and Early 1970s” Friday, April 1st at at 2 pm – usual classroom. (WebEx: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.dimaio)

Texts:
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, chapter 1 (1963)
Ann Koedt, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” (1970)

Here are two files that prof. S. Rosso has shared with us:

A Glossary of the Vietnam War (with bibliographical references)

Tim O’Brien, a short bio

There is one page (a few lines, in fact) missing from the M.L. King text “The Power of Nonviolence” in this week’s course reader. Here it is. A.C.

matr.	FINAL SCORE	MC /30	open1	open2
805734	21	26	15	20
854173	25	26	24	24
871559	29	29	30	29
885917	29	29	30	28
893733	21	23	24	17
912476	26	28	26	23
914189	25	25	26	24
915380	24	25	22	25
916947	26	26	27	24
917258	24	27	18	27
919576	26	26	26	26
925928	20	24	18	18
927795	24	25	24	22
928690	27	25	28	27
929681	FAIL. Must repeat this test	27	0	3
931499	FAIL. Must repeat this test	22	15	6
936447	19	23	15	18
944479	24	25	22	24
944927	FAIL. Must repeat this test	15	0	3
944998	27	27	28	27
945086	FAIL	27	27	0
945429	FAIL. Must repeat this test	13	0	6
945605	27	30	28	24
946081	25	25	24	25
946585	24	24	25	24
947156	27	25	28	30
947534	20	19	25	16
947961	29	29	28	29
948681	25	27	30	17
948892	18	18	15	22
949680	25	25	24	27
952037	23	25	20	24
961980	27	30	24	27
964710	FAIL. Must repeat this test	16	6	3
975363	26	28	23	27
1021964	FAIL. Must repeat this test	23	12	17

I am available to discuss your scores and answer your questions during office hours or after class.

A.C.

Course reader, part 2, is now available on MOODLE.

For those following from remote, our review session of March 3rd (2-4 pm) will be broadcast at https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.dimaio

The following students have attended at least 70% of the course sessions and are therefore admitted to take midterm exam on March 4th:

805734
854173
871559
885917
893733
912476
912742
914182
914189
915380
915394
916947
917258
917804
919576
924239
927795
928690
929681
936447
937108
944479
944537
944998
945086
945605
946081
946585
947156
947534
947961
948681
948892
949680
950603
952037
964710
975363
1021964

The following students do not meet the 70% minimum attendance requirement yet. However, if they attend the March 3rd review session, they will be admitted to the midterm:

920431
961980
925928
944927
945429

If you feel you should appear in one of the lists above but you do not see your matriculation number, pls. contact me asap.

A.C.

Upon review, 2 texts appear missing from the course reader, in full or in part.

The Marcuse text linked below was presented in class in week 4, but it was not included in the first part of the course reader (and replaces “Essay on Libeartion”, which is NOT part of the the first course reader). Unfortunately, no one mentioned in class that I was presenting a text that was not in the reader.

The 3rd (and last) page of the Savio text is also missing from the course reder.

Here is the missing Marcuse text,
And here is the missing Savio text (only the last page is missing from the course reader)

A.C.