Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction

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Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 253
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultural Studies, designed to provoke discussion and raise questions. Each thematic section examines and explains a key topic within Cultural Studies. Sections include: * the discipline * time * space * media and the public sphere * identity * sexuality and gender * value

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part 1 THE DISCIPLINE......Page 12
1.1 Going global......Page 14
1.2 Enterprise culture......Page 23
1.3 Genres and genealogies......Page 28
1.4 Problems......Page 47
Part 2 TIME......Page 58
2.1 The past: cultural history/cultural memory......Page 60
2.2 The present......Page 70
2.3 The future: policies and prophesies......Page 78
Part 3 SPACE......Page 88
3.1 Thinking globalisation......Page 90
3.2 The regional, national and local......Page 105
Part 4 MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE......Page 116
4.1 Television......Page 118
4.2 Popular music......Page 133
4.3 The Internet and technoculture......Page 145
Part 5 IDENTITY......Page 152
5.1 Debating identity......Page 154
5.2 Multiculturalism......Page 162
5.3 Race......Page 170
Part 6 SEXUALITY AND GENDER......Page 178
6.1 Feminism's aftermath: gender today......Page 180
6.2 Queer culture......Page 192
Part 7 VALUE......Page 200
7.1 Culture high and low......Page 202
7.2 The nature of culture......Page 217
Conclusion......Page 223
Bibliography......Page 225
Index......Page 242

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