theory and practice Barker, Chris 1955- creator text bibliography enk London Thousand Oaks, Calif Sage c2008 2008 3rd ed. monographic eng

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xxiv, 525 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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 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. Chris Barker ; with a foreword by Paul Willis. Culture Study and teaching Culture 9781412924153 9781412924160 2007927246 070419 20181127185501.0 8259