| Description |
xv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Culture is ordinary / Raymond Williams -- 2. The rhetoric of the image / Roland Barthes -- 3. The television discourse - encoding and decoding / Stuart Hall -- 4. Soap opera and women / Richard Dyer, Terry Lovell and Jean McCrindle -- 5. Orientalism / Edward Said -- 6. Concepts of culture - public policy and the cultural industries / Nicholas Garnham -- 7. Reading Reading the romance / Janice Radway -- 8. Cultural studies at the crossroads / Graham Murdock -- 9. Subcultural conflict and working-class community / Phil Cohen -- 10. Alice in the consumer wonderland / Erica Carter -- 11. Black and white on the dance-floor / Paul Gilroy -- 12. Minimal selves / Stuart Hall -- 13. Between holy text and moral void / Bhikhu Parekh -- 14. Technology and tradition - audio-visual culture among south Asian families in west London / Marie Gillespie -- 15. Just looking for trouble - Robert Mapplethorpe and fantasies of race / Kobena Mercer |
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16. Echoes of the present - the Victorian press and Ireland / Liz Curtis -- 17. Meaning and ideology / Judith Williamson -- 18. Postmodernism and consumer society / Fredric Jameson -- 19. Symbolic creativity / Paul Willis -- 20. The view from futures past / Mike Davis -- 21. Fictions of Europe / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- 22. A global sense of place / Doreen Massey -- 23. The new petite bourgeoisie / Pierre Bourdieu -- 24. The city as studio; the world as back lot: the impact of vertical disintegration on the location of the motion picture industry / Susan Christopherson and Michael Storper -- 25. Nihilism in black America / Cornel West -- 26. Can Cinderella become a citizen? / Barbara Einhorn -- 27. A problematic - speaking the self / Elspeth Probyn -- 28. Cultural studies from the viewpoint of cultural policy / Stuart Cunningham -- 29. European cities, the informational society, and the global economy / Manuel Castells |
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30. An invitation to a sociology of stories / Ken Plummer -- 31. Empowering technology / Julian Stallabrass |
| Summary |
This stimulating resource book for students of cultural studies traces the formation of the field in Britain and its subsequent development internationally. This new edition includes a new section exploring recent work in international cultural studies |
| Analysis |
Popular culture |
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Culture |
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 1945- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Popular culture.
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Culture.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Civilization -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056627
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Gray, Ann, 1946-
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McGuigan, Jim.
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| LC no. |
97014189 |
| ISBN |
0340676884 paperback |
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