The cultural studies reader / edited by Simon During.
Contributor(s): During, Simon [editor]
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BookPublisher: London : Routledge, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: Second edition.Description: xiii, 610 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415137543 (paperback); 0415137535 (hardback).Subject(s): Culture | Culture -- Study and teaching | Popular cultureDDC classification: 306.4 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The first edition of established itself as the leading textbook in the field, providing the ideal introduction for students to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers:
* 38 essays including 18 new articles
* an editor's preface succinctly introducing each article
* comprehensive coverage of every major cultural studies method and theory
* an updated account of recent changes in the field
* articles on new areas such as science and cyberculture, globalization, postcolonialism, public spheres and cultural policy
* a fully revised introduction and an extensive guide to further reading.
Bibliography: (pages 577-599) and index.
Part one: Theory and method -- Part two: Space and time -- Part three: Nationalism, postcolonialism and globalization -- Part four: Ethnicity and multiculturalism -- Part five: Science and cyberculture -- Part six: Sexuality and gender -- Part seven: Carnival and utopia -- Part eight: Consumption and the market -- Part nine: Leisure -- Part ten: Culture - political economy and policy -- Part eleven: Media and public spheres.
CIT Module ARTS 8003 - Core reading.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. x)
- 1 Introduction (p. 1)
- Part 1 Theory and method
- 2 The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (p. 31)
- 3 Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature (p. 42)
- 4 Culture, Cultural Studies and the Historians (p. 46)
- 5 On Collecting Art and Culture (p. 57)
- 6 The Place of Walter Benjamin in Cultural Studies (p. 77)
- 7 Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies (p. 97)
- Part 2 Space and time
- 8 History: Geography: Modernity (p. 113)
- 9 Walking in the City (p. 126)
- 10 Space, Power and Knowledge (p. 134)
- 11 Defining the Postmodern (p. 142)
- 12 Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and Colonial Space (p. 146)
- Part 3 Nationalism, postcolonialism and globalization
- 13 Scattered Speculations on the Question of Cultural Studies (p. 169)
- 14 The Postcolonial and the Postmodern: the Question of Agency (p. 189)
- 15 National-Popular: Genealogy of a Concept (p. 209)
- 16 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (p. 220)
- Part 4 Ethnicity and multiculturalism
- 17 A Revolution of Values: the Promise of Multicultural Change (p. 233)
- 18 Racial Cross-Dressing and the Construction of American Whiteness (p. 241)
- 19 The New Cultural Politics of Difference (p. 256)
- Part 5 Science and cyberculture
- 20 A Cyborg Manifesto (p. 271)
- 21 The Challenge of Science (p. 292)
- Part 6 Sexuality and gender
- 22 Upping the Anti (SIC) in Feminist Theory (p. 307)
- 23 Axiomatic (p. 320)
- 24 Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire (p. 340)
- 25 Sex in Public (p. 354)
- Part 7 Carnival and utopia
- 26 Entertainment and Utopia (p. 371)
- 27 Bourgeois Hysteria and the Carnivalesque (p. 382)
- Part 8 Consumption and the market
- 28 Things to do with Shopping Centres (p. 391)
- 29 Advertising: The Magic System (p. 410)
- Part 9 Leisure
- 30 How Can one be a Sports Fan? (p. 427)
- 31 The Function of Subculture (p. 441)
- 32 Characterizing Rock Music Culture: The Case of Heavy Metal (p. 451)
- 33 Listening Otherwise, Music Miniaturized: A Different Type of Question About Revolution (p. 462)
- Part 10 Culture - political economy and policy
- 34 Putting Policy Into Cultural Studies (p. 479)
- 35 Political Economy and Cultural Studies (p. 492)
- Part 11 Media and public spheres
- 36 Encoding, Decoding (p. 507)
- 37 Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy (p. 518)
- 38 The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles (p. 537)
- 39 The Institutional Matrix of Romance (p. 564)
- Bibliography (p. 577)
- Index (p. 601)