Beschreibung
"An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and clever."
- Times Higher Education
"The ideal textbook for FE and first year HE cultural studies students. Its quality and character allow the reader to feel the enthusiasm of its author which in turn becomes infectious, instilling in the reader a genuine sense of ebullient perturbation."
- Art/Design/Media, The Higher Education Authority
An introduction to the practice of cultural studies, this book is ideal for undergraduate courses. Full of practical exercises that will get students thinking and writing about the issues they encounter, this book offers its readers the conceptual tools to practice cultural analysis for themselves. There are heuristics to help students prepare and write projects, and the book provides plenty of examples to help students develop their own ideas.
Written in a creative, playful and witty style, this book:
Links key concepts to the key theorists of cultural studies.Includes a wide range of references of popular cultural forms.Emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of cultural studies.Includes pedagogical features, such as dialogues, graphs, images and recommended readings.The books skills-based approach enables students to develop their creative skills, and shows students how to improve their powers of analysis generally.
To listen to David Waltons musical response to Adornos famous essay on jazz, please visitAdorno: Jazz Perennial Fashion. This song accompanies pages 64 to 66 of the book together with a series of questions designed to get readers to evaluate the positive and negative aspects of Adornos approach.
Inhalt
PART ONE: HIGH CULTURE GLADIATORS: SOME INFLUENTIAL EARLY MODELS OF CULTURAL ANALYSIS
Culture and Anarchy in the UK
A Dialogue with Matthew Arnold
The Leavisites and T.S. Eliot Combat Mass Urban Culture
Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the Culture Industry
PART TWO: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF WORKING-CLASS CULTURE
From a Day Out at the Seaside to the Milk Bar
Richard Hoggart and Working-Class Culture
E.P. Thompson and Working-Class Culture as a Site for Conflict, Consciousness and Resistance
Towards a Recognizable Theory of Culture
Raymond Williams
PART THREE: CONSOLIDATING CULTURAL STUDIES: SUBCULTURES, THE POPULAR, IDEOLOGY AND HEGEMONY
Introducing Stuart Hall
The Importance and Re-evaluation of Popular Mass Culture
Youth Subcultures and Resistance
A Dialogue withQuadrophenia
Subcultures and Widening Horizons
Further Strategies for Practice
How to Dominate the Masses Without Resorting to the Inquisition
Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony Theory
A Few Ways You Might Adapt Ideas from Louis Althusser to Cultural Studies
a Dialogue with Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde
PART FOUR: PROBING THE MARGINS, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN: REPRESENTATION, SUBORDINATION AND IDENTITY
Crying Woolf! Thinking with Feminism
Adapting Theory to Explore Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality
The Case of East is East
PART FIVE: HONING YOUR SKILLS, CONCLUSIONS AND BEGIN-ENDINGS
Consolidating Practice, Heuristic Thinking, Creative Cri-tickle Acts and Further Research
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