| Description |
vi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. The idea of cultural studies. Language and culture. Semiotics and signification. Marxism and ideology. Individualism and subjectivity. Texts, contexts and discourses. Applying the principles -- 2. The British tradition: a short history. Hoggart and The Uses of Literacy. Raymond Williams. E. P. Thompson and culturalism. Stuart Hall. The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Other 'centres' -- 3. Texts and contexts. Encoding/decoding. The establishment of textual analysis. Dethroning the text. Polysemy, ambiguity and reading texts -- 4. Audiences. Morley and the Nationwide audience. Watching with the audience: Dorothy Hobson and Crossroads. Widening the frame: TV in the home. Text and audience: Buckingham's EastEnders. Media audiences and ethnography. The audience as fiction -- 5. Ethnographies, histories and sociologies. Ethnography. Historians and cultural studies. Sociology, cultural studies and media institutions -- 6. Ideology. The return of the repressed |
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The turn to Gramsci. The retreat from ideology: resistance, pleasure and the new revisionism. Postmodernism -- 7. Politics. Politics, class and cultural studies. Women take issue. There ain't no black. |
| Summary |
The new edition of this highly successful text provides a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of Cultural Studies. The British school has been a major influence in the humanities and social sciences, radically redefining the study of popular culture, the media and everyday life. Graeme Turner offers an accessible overview to the central themes that have informed British Cultural Studies; language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism and subjectivity and discourse. In the first part of the book Turner presents a history of British cultural studies focusing on the work of such pioneers as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. In the second section he focuses on the central categories of cultural studies; text and textuality, audiences, everyday life and the concept of ideology. The second edition is fully revised to include issues in Cultural Studies and to update key debates and references. New sections include the influence of postmodernism, the politics of pleasure identified with the 'New Revisionism', Foucault and discourse, the politics of cultural studies, Gender and Race in the history of British Cultural Studies, and a fully updated and comprehensive bibliography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-252) and index |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Mass media -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuvy
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Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056626
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| LC no. |
96003690 |
| ISBN |
0415129303 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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