ABSTRACT
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
Introduction
part 1|46 pages
The Discipline
chapter 1.1|10 pages
Going global
chapter 1.2|5 pages
Enterprise culture
chapter 1.3|19 pages
Genres and genealogies
chapter 1.4|11 pages
Problems
part 2|30 pages
Time
chapter 2.1|11 pages
The past: cultural history/cultural memory
chapter 2.2|8 pages
The present
chapter 2.3|10 pages
The future: policies and prophesies
part 3|28 pages
Space
chapter 3.1|16 pages
Thinking globalisation
chapter 3.2|11 pages
The regional, national and local
part 4|36 pages
Media and The Public Sphere
chapter 4.1|16 pages
Television
chapter 4.2|12 pages
Popular music
chapter 4.3|7 pages
The Internet and technoculture
part 5|26 pages
Identity
part 6|22 pages
Sexuality and Gender
chapter 6.1|13 pages
Feminism's aftermath: gender today
chapter 6.2|8 pages
Queer culture
part 7|23 pages
Value