Module Descriptors
AMERICAN NEW JOURNALISM: NARRATING THE PRESENT
ENGL60220
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 6
15 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 22
Independent Study Hours: 128
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 67%
- CRITICAL ANALYSIS weighted at 33%
Module Details
Module Resources
OHP
Library
VCR
Internet
Library
VCR
Internet
Module Texts
Tom Wolfe, The New Journalism (1973)
Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night (extracts provided) (1968)
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1973)
Joan Didion, The White Album (1983)
Michael Herr, Dispatches (1978)
Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night (extracts provided) (1968)
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1973)
Joan Didion, The White Album (1983)
Michael Herr, Dispatches (1978)
Module Learning Strategies
Contact hours will be taken up with Lectures, seminars, and small-group tutorials to support coursework planning.
Module Indicative Content
This module will explore selected texts of American New Journalism as responses to specific social, cultural and political crises in the USA of the nineteen sixties and seventies, and as examples of a form that is positioned ambiguously between fact and fiction, raising central questions of journalistic technique and ethics. Students will gain knowledge of a significant area of cultural politics in recent American history; develop an analytical insight into the cultural implications of writing reportage in contemporary Western society, and explore aspects of the `postmodernism debate? through a specific historical case-study.
Module Additional Assessment Details
Coursework Essay 2000 words, relating to two or more texts. [learning Outcomes 2, 3, 4]
Critical Analysis [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4]
Critical Analysis [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4]