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Cultural studies : theory and practice / Chris Barker ; with a foreword by Paul Willis.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2008.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxiv, 525 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781412924153
  • 9781412924160
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CONTENTS: An introduction to cultural studies. -- Questions of culture and ideology. -- Culture, meaning, knowledge: the linguistic turn in cultural studies. -- Biology and culture: questions of reductionism and complexity. -- The changing context of cultural studies. -- A new world disorder?. -- Enter postmodernism. -- Sities of cultural studies. -- Issues of subjectivity and identity. -- Ethnicity, race and nation. -- Sex, subjectivity and representation. -- Television, text and audiences. -- Digital media culture. -- Cultural space and urban place. -- Youth, style and resistance. -- Cultural politics and cultural policy.
Summary: An introduction to cultural studies. It provides the students with the information they need to know: the theoretical foundations and developments of cultural studies and the questions that occupy the field, from the multiple meanings of 'culture' itself to ideology, language, subjectivity, sex, space, race, media, the urban, youth and resistance
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CONTENTS: An introduction to cultural studies. -- Questions of culture and ideology. -- Culture, meaning, knowledge: the linguistic turn in cultural studies. -- Biology and culture: questions of reductionism and complexity. -- The changing context of cultural studies. -- A new world disorder?. -- Enter postmodernism. -- Sities of cultural studies. -- Issues of subjectivity and identity. -- Ethnicity, race and nation. -- Sex, subjectivity and representation. -- Television, text and audiences. -- Digital media culture. -- Cultural space and urban place. -- Youth, style and resistance. -- Cultural politics and cultural policy.

An introduction to cultural studies. It provides the students with the information they need to know: the theoretical foundations and developments of cultural studies and the questions that occupy the field, from the multiple meanings of 'culture' itself to ideology, language, subjectivity, sex, space, race, media, the urban, youth and resistance

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