[ecrea] Seminar on U.S. Literary Journalism

*São Paulo, August 6, 2017

A 30-hour seminar on U.S. Literary Journalism at Unesp de Bauru with 
Prof. Dr. John S. Bak (University of Lorraine, France) will be open to 
interested students from other universities.*


Professor John S. Bak, of the University of Lorraine in France, will 
teach a week-long seminar, entitled "U.S. Literary Journalism from 
'Yellow Journalism' to the 'New New Journalists', at Unesp in Bauru, on 
August 9-11 and 14-16, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The course will be in 
English and is directed at postgraduate students (Unesp undergraduate 
students can register as auditors). Students from other universities can 
register as auditors as well (if they are currently enrolled) or as 
special students (if they have already graduated or are currently employed).

Professor John S. Bak is founding President of the International 
Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) and one of the 
references in the field due to works such as /Literary Journalism across 
the Globe: Journalist traditions and Transnational Influences/ 
(University of Massachusetts Press, 2011), co-edited with Bill Reynolds. 
He is coming to Brazil under the auspices of the program "Chaires 
Franco-Brésiliennes dans l'Etat de São Paulo 2017," organized by UNESP, 
UNICAMP, USP and the Consulate General of France in São Paulo / Brazil 
French Institute (IFB).

Documents required for enrollment in the seminar include:

*Auditors*(interested undergraduate students fall into this category): 
ID card. Auditors will not receive a certificate of participation.
*Special students* (to be considered a special student you must already 
have a diploma): an ID card and a copy of the diploma or certificate of 
graduation. Special students will receive a certificate of participation 
in the course.
*Regular program students:* just contact the graduate school secretary 
to enroll.

Entries can be made on the first day of the seminar. If you have any 
questions or are interested in pre-registring, please contact Silvio at 
the Unesp FAAC post-graduation at: (55) 14 3103-6057.

*Seminar description:*

*“U.S. Literary Journalism from ‘Yellow Journalism’ to the ‘New New 
Journalists”.*

If objective journalism applies the five essential heuristics to any 
given historical event (who, what, when, where, and how), literary 
journalism, a hybrid genre of journalistic reportage and creative 
writing, often seeks a sixth heuristic: the why of an event. From 
football hooliganism to Soviet oppression in Tiananmen Square, literary 
journalism sets out to “buff and polish the fact until it becomes a 
greater reality”. Similar to documentary films, which we will also look 
at, literary journalism situates itself more clearly between the subject 
and the reader than traditional news reporting does, offering a 
personal, albeit thoroughly documented, perspective on events that have 
both changed the world or failed to capture the public’s attention. The 
goal of this seminar is to introduce graduate students to the practice 
and study of U.S. literary journalism throug h a variety of texts from 
the Yellow Journalism of the 19th century to the New New Journalists of 
the late 20th century. Extracts from books to be studied include: /Let 
us Now Praise Famous Men/, James Agee; /Hiroshima/, John Hersey; /In 
Cold Blood/, Truman Capote; /The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test/, Tom 
Wolfe; /Armies of the Night/, Norman Mailer; /Fear and Loathing in Las 
Vegas/, Hunter S. Thompson; /The White Album/, Joan Didion; /Blackhawk 
Down/, Mark Bowden. Films to be discussed will include /Citizen Kane/, 
/In Cold Blood/, /Shattered Glass/, /Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/, 
and /Black Hawk Down/.


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