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Introducing cultural studies / Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon ; edited by Richard Appignanesi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sardar, Ziauddin.
- Series:
- Introducing (Thriplow, England)
- Introducing
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Totem Books, 1998, c1997.
- Cambridge, U.K. : Icon Books ; New York, N.Y. : Totem Books, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution as we begin the new millennium. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? Introducing Cultural Studies provides an incisive tour through the minefield of this complex subject, charting its origins in Britain and its migration to the USA, Canada, France, Australia and South Asia, examining the ideas of its leading exponents and providing a flavour of its use around the world. Covering the ground from Gramsci to Raymond Williams, postcolonial discourse to the politics of diaspora, feminism to queer theory, technoculture and the media to
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- What Is Cultural Studies?
- What is Culture?
- hat is the Subject of Cultural Studies?
- Characteristics of Cultural Studies
- How to do Cultural Studies: Semiotics
- Signs, Codes and Texts
- Representation of the Other
- Discursive Analysis
- Decoding the Indian Restaurant
- Origins of Cultural Studies
- Richard Hoggart
- Authentic Working-Class Life
- Raymond Williams
- E.P. Thompson: Understanding Class
- Remembering History
- Intellectual Practice
- Culture Makes a Difference
- British Cultural Studies
- The Internationalism of Cultural Studies
- Broadening the Issues
- Althusser's Structuralism
- The Influence of Antonio Gramsci
- Hegemony
- Intellectuals
- Criticism of British
- Cultural Studies
- The Migration of Cultural Studies
- American Cultural Studies
- Canadian Cultural Studies
- Australian Cultural Studies
- french Cultural Studies
- Pierre Bourdieu
- South Asian Cultural Studies
- The CSDS
- CS or the "Teen Murti
- The Subaltern Studies Collective
- The Influence of Gandhi
- The Place of English
- Ashis Nandy
- The Stereotyped Oriental
- The Permeable Self
- the Non-Player and the Future
- What is the Solution?
- Cultural Studies of Science
- The Paradigm Shift
- Science Defended ...
- And Science (de)Constructed
- Technoculture Theory
- Haraway's Cyborgs
- Orientalism
- Forerunners to Orientalism
- Criticisms of Said
- Post-Colonial Discourse
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Homi Bhabha
- Sara Suleri
- Race and Identity
- Multiculturalism and its Critics
- Cornel West
- bell hooks
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Diaspora
- Diaspora Space
- The Black Atlantic
- Women and Gender
- Women Take Issue
- Queer Theory
- Representing Homosexuality
- Challenging the Representation
- Media and Culture
- Media Codes
- The Basic Issues of Representation.
- Globalization
- Consequences of Globalization
- Resisting Globalization
- Where is Cultural Studies Going?
- Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Originally published: Cultural studies for beginners. Cambridge [England] : Icon Books, 1997.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-37199-8
- 9786611371999
- 1-84046-456-9
- OCLC:
- 527378870
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