Back to reality? : social experience and cultural studies

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Back to reality? : social experience and cultural studies

edited by Angela McRobbie

Manchester University Press , distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes index

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: hbk ISBN 9780719044540

Description

The aim of this book is to extend the political and the intellectual concerns of cultural studies to include the realm of social experience. From rap to rave, from menswear to "Marie Claire", from rock to sex tourism, each essay tackles issues of ideology, bodies, power and gender in contemporary popular culture.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Cultural studies in an international frame: cultural studies, modern logics and theories of globalization, Larry Grossberg
  • a question of cultural studies, Meaghan Morris
  • cultural studies at the crossroads, Graham Murdock
  • Eros, eroticism and the pedagogical process, bell hooks. Part 2 Bodies, images and music: "After the love has gone" - bio-politics and ethno-poetics in the black public sphere, Paul Gilroy
  • rock anxieties and the new music networks, Dave Laing
  • purity and danger - race, gender and tales of sex tourism, Vron Ware
  • women and the early British rave scene, Maria Pini
  • designs on masculinity, Sean Nixon
  • more! new sexualities in girls' and women's magazines, Angela McRobbie.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719044557

Description

The aim of this book is to extend the political and the intellectual concerns of cultural studies to include the realm of social experience. From rap to rave, from menswear to 'Marie Claire', from rock to sex tourism, each essay tackles issues of ideology, bodies, power and gender in contemporary popular culture. -- .

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Cultural studies in an international frame: cultural studies, modern logics and theories of globalization, Larry Grossberg
  • a question of cultural studies, Meaghan Morris
  • cultural studies at the crossroads, Graham Murdock
  • Eros, eroticism and the pedagogical process, bell hooks. Part 2 Bodies, images and music: "After the love has gone" - bio-politics and ethno-poetics in the black public sphere, Paul Gilroy
  • rock anxieties and the new music networks, Dave Laing
  • purity and danger - race, gender and tales of sex tourism, Vron Ware
  • women and the early British rave scene, Maria Pini
  • designs on masculinity, Sean Nixon
  • more! new sexualities in girls' and women's magazines, Angela McRobbie.

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