Cultural studies : a critical introduction

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Author:

During, Simon, 1950-

ISBN:

9780415246576

9780415246569

Personal Author:

During, Simon, 1950-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Physical Description:

vi, 244 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Going global -- Enterprise culture -- Genres and genealogies -- Problems -- The past : cultural history/cultural memory -- The present -- The future : policies and prophesies -- Thinking globalisation -- The regional, national and local -- Television -- Popular music -- The Internet and technoculture -- Debating identity -- Multiculturalism -- Race -- Feminism's aftermath : gender today -- Queer culture -- Culture high and low -- The nature of culture.

Abstract:

"Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to cultural studies from its beginnings to the global field that it is becoming today. It begins by describing cultural studies' social and theoretical histories and contexts, and then presents a series of short essays on important areas, designed to provoke discussion and raise questions. Each thematic section examines and explains a key topic." "Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction will be very useful in classrooms but will also appeal to anyone with an interest in keeping up or familiarising themselves with cultural studies in its contemporary forms."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Culture.

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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