Studying culture : an introductory reader
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Studying culture : an introductory reader
E. Arnold, 1993
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- : pbk
Available at 36 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This reader traces the history of cultural studies, from its early formation to its subsequent international development. It registers a series of critical interventions and includes examples of current work. Classic statements of the culturalist, semiological and post-modernist perspectives contrast with seminal material, some of which is less well-known, illustrating the impact of feminism, the politics of sexuality, ethnicity and race. The three main sections - foundations, difference and identity, meaning and power - each have a contextualizing introduction and detailed recommendations for further reading. The texts have been selected with a view to their accessibility and relevance to general themes in the study of contemporary culture. They provide appropriate starting points for classroom discussion and debate.
Table of Contents
- Some foundations - culture is ordinary
- the rhetoric of the image
- the television discourse - encoding and decoding
- soap opera ad women
- orientalism
- concepts of culture - public policy and the cultural industries
- reading "reading and romance"
- cultural studies at the crossroads
- difference and identity - subcultural conflict and working-class community
- Alice in the consumer wonderland
- black and white on the dance-floor
- minimal selves
- between holy text and moral void
- technology and tradition - audio-visual culture among south Asian families in west London
- just looking for trouble - Robert Mapplethorpe and fantasies of race
- meaning and power - echoes of the present - the Victorian press and Ireland
- meaning and ideology
- postmodernism and consumer society
- symbolic creativity
- the view from futures past
- fictions of Europe
- a global sense of place.
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