| Description |
vii, 244 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Investigating Problems in Cultural Studies -- The cultural studies family -- Family therapy: approaching problems in cultural studies -- Underlying themes -- 2. Language, Practice and the Material -- Language and cultural studies: dilemmas and omissions -- Signification and cultural materialism -- Language, the material and practices that signify -- From text to performances -- 3. Truth, Science and Ideology -- Philosophy in search of the truth -- The place of science -- The mistaken character of ideology -- The concept of hegemony -- Political values in cultural studies -- 4. Culture as a Way of Life -- Raymond Williams: culture as a whole way of life -- Commodities are ordinary -- The whole divided -- Holism and levels of practice -- Global chaos culture -- 5. Subjects, Agents and the Limits of Rational Action -- The subject of cultural studies -- The limits of the rational mind -- Constructionism and the language of biochemistry -- 6. Identity, Equality and Difference: The Politics of Gender -- Identity and difference -- Gender and difference -- The science of sex -- Man trouble -- 7. Global Culture/Media Culture -- Globalization and cultural imperialism -- Globalizing the television market -- Programme flows in global television -- Global audiences and creative consumption -- Syncretic global youth culture -- Diaspora and hybrid identities -- Globalization and power -- 8. Transforming Capitalism -- The transformation of capitalism -- The recomposition of class and culture -- Class: the return of the repressed -- The problem of consumer culture -- Consumption, resistance and lifestyle politics -- Living in the wasteland: resistance and beyond -- 9. Kaleidoscopic Cultural Studies: Issues of Politics and Method -- The politics of culture and power -- Cultural studies and the agents of cultural politics -- Texts, institutions and the politics of method -- The politics of policy -- Emotional education -- 10. Evolution and Emotion: New Resources for Cultural Studies -- Evolutionary biology and cultural studies -- The fundamentals of evolutionary psychology -- Evolution, culture and emotions -- The problem of meaning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mass media and culture.
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Culture.
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Popular culture.
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| Author |
Hill, Rebecca (Lecturer)
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| LC no. |
2001032958 |
| ISBN |
0761968954 |
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0761968962 paperback |
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