Cultural Studies - Theory and Practice

Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: CULTURE AND CULTURAL STUDIESChapter 1: An Introduction to Cultural Studies The Language-Game of Cultural Studies Cultural Studies as Politics The Parameters of Cultural Studies The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Disciplining Cultural Studies Key Concepts in Cultural Studies Culture and Signifying Practices Representation Materialism and Non-Reductionism Articulation Power Popular Culture Texts and Readers Subjectivity and Identity The Intellectual Strands of Cultural Studies Marxism and the Centrality of Class Capitalism Marxism and Cultural Studies Culturalism and Structuralism Culture is Ordinary Structuralism Deep Structures of Language Culture as 'Like a Language' Poststructuralism (and Postmodernism) Derrida: The Instability of Language Foucault and Discursive Practices Anti-Essentialism Postmodernism Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity Freudian Self The Oedipus Complex The Politics of Difference: Feminism, Race and Postcolonial Theory Feminism Race, Ethnicity and Hybridity The New Cultural Studies Project Central Problems in Cultural Studies Language and the Material The Textual Character of Culture The Location of Culture How is Cultural Change Possible? Rationality and Its Limits The Character of Truth Questions of Methodology Key Methodologies in Cultural Studies Ethnography Textual Approaches Reception Studies The Place of TheoryChapter 2. Questions of Culture and Ideology Culture with a Capital C: The Great and the Good in the Literary Tradition Leavisism Culture is Ordinary The Anthropological Approach to Culture Culturalism: Hoggart, Thompson, Williams Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy Edward Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class Raymond Williams and Cultural Materialism High Culture/Low Culture: Aesthetics and the Collapse of Boundaries A Question of Quality Form and Content Ideological Analysis The Problem of Judgement Mass Culture: Popular Culture Culture as Mass Deception Criticisms of the Frankfurt School Creative Consumption Popular Culture The Popular is Political Culture and the Social Formation Marxism and the Metaphor of Base and Superstructure The Foundations of Culture Culture as Class Power The Specificity of Culture Williams: Totality and the Variable Distance of Practices Relative Autonomy and the Specificity of Cultural Practices Althusser and the Social Formation Relative Autonomy Articulation and the Circuit of Culture Two Economies The Question of Ideology Marxism and False Consciousness Althusser and Ideology Ideological State Apparatuses The Double Character of Ideology Althusser and Cultural Studies Gramsci, Ideology and Hegemony Cultural and Ideological Hegemony Ideology and Popular Culture The Instability of Hegemony Gramscian Cultural Studies The Problems of Hegemony and Ideology Hegemony and Fragmentation Hegemony and Power Ideology as Powee Ideology and Misrecognition What is Ideology?Chapter 3: Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The Linguistic Turn in Cultural Studies Saussure and Semiotics Signifying Systems Cultural Codes Barthes and Mythology 'Myth Today' Polysemic Signs Poststructuralism and Intertextuality Derrida: Textuality and Différance Nothing but Signs Différance Derrida's Postcards Strategies of W riting Deconstruction Derrida and Cultural Studies Foucault: Discourse, Practice and Power Discursive Practices Discourse and Discipline The Productivity of Power The Subjects of Discourse Post-Marxism and the Discursive Construction of the 'Social' Deconst...

List of contents

PART ONE: CULTURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Cultural Studies
The Language-Game of Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies as Politics
The Parameters of Cultural Studies
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Disciplining Cultural Studies
Key Concepts in Cultural Studies
Culture and Signifying Practices
Representation
Materialism and Non-Reductionism
Articulation
Power
Popular Culture
Texts and Readers
Subjectivity and Identity
The Intellectual Strands of Cultural Studies
Marxism and the Centrality of Class
Capitalism
Marxism and Cultural Studies
Culturalism and Structuralism
Culture is Ordinary
Structuralism
Deep Structures of Language
Culture as 'Like a Language'Poststructuralism (and Postmodernism)
Derrida: The Instability of Language
Foucault and Discursive Practices
Anti-Essentialism
Postmodernism
Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity
Freudian Self
The Oedipus Complex
The Politics of Difference: Feminism, Race and Postcolonial Theory
Feminism
Race, Ethnicity and Hybridity
The New Cultural Studies Project
Central Problems in Cultural Studies
Language and the Material
The Textual Character of Culture
The Location of Culture
How is Cultural Change Possible?
Rationality and Its Limits
The Character of Truth
Questions of Methodology
Key Methodologies in Cultural StudiesEthnography
Textual Approaches
Reception Studies
The Place of Theory
Chapter 2. Questions of Culture and Ideology
Culture with a Capital C: The Great and the Good in the Literary Tradition
Leavisism
Culture is Ordinary
The Anthropological Approach to Culture
Culturalism: Hoggart, Thompson, Williams
Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy
Edward Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class
Raymond Williams and Cultural Materialism
High Culture/Low Culture: Aesthetics and the Collapse of Boundaries
A Question of Quality
Form and Content
Ideological Analysis
The Problem of Judgement
Mass Culture: Popular Culture
Culture as Mass Deception
Criticisms of the Frankfurt School
Creative Consumption
Popular Culture
The Popular is Political
Culture and the Social Formation
Marxism and the Metaphor of Base and Superstructure
The Foundations of Culture
Culture as Class Power
The Specificity of Culture
Williams: Totality and the Variable Distance of Practices
Relative Autonomy and the Specificity of Cultural Practices
Althusser and the Social Formation
Relative Autonomy
Articulation and the Circuit of Culture
Two Economies
The Question of Ideology
Marxism and False Consciousness
Althusser and Ideology
Ideological State Apparatuses
The Double Character of Ideology
Althusser and Cultural Studies
Gramsci, Ideology and Hegemony
Cultural and Ideological Hegemony
Ideology and Popular Culture
The Instability of Hegemony
Gramscian Cultural Studies
The Problems of Hegemony and Ideology
Hegemony and Fragmentation
Hegemony and Power
Ideology as Powee
Ideology and Misrecognition
What is Ideology?
Chapter 3: Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The Linguistic Turn in Cultural Studies
Saussure and Semiotics
Signifying Systems
Cultural Codes
Barthes and Mythology'Myth Today'Polysemic Signs
Poststructuralism and Intertextuality
Derrida: Textuality and Différance
Nothing but Signs
Différance
Derrida's Postcards
Strategies of W riting
Deconstruction
Derrida and Cultural Studies
Foucault: Discourse, Practice and Power
Discursive Practices
Discourse and Discipline
The Productivity of Power
The Subjects of Discourse
Post-Marxism and the Discursive Construction of the 'Social'Deconstructing Marxism
The Articulated Social
Language and Psychoanalysis: Lacan
The Mirror Phase
The Symbolic Order
The Unconscious as 'Like a Language'Problems with Lacan
Language as Use: Wittgenstein and Rorty
Wittgenstein's Investigations
Language as a Tool
Language-Games
Lyotard and Incommensurability
Rorty and the Contingency of Language
Anti-Representationalism
Truth as Social Co

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Chris Barker is a trustworthy field guide for those new to cultural studies. His book is a treasure trove of techniques and productive questions; it is an encyclopaedia of the terms, concepts and authors at the centre of cultural studies. It is a work of reference and a practical tool-kit - jump in and set it to work
Ben Highmore
Reader in Media Studies, University of Sussex

This new edition of Cultural Studies offers a timely engagement with important ideas, questions and debates in this fast-developing field. Remarkable in the breadth of its coverage, it is written with passion and insight. It will be warmly welcomed by students interested in how theory can help us to think through the complexities of real-world issues
Stuart Allan
Professor of Journalism, Bournemouth University

Chris Barker's Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice has been for many years one of the best guides to and overviews of a broad range of the issues and theories that constitute cultural studies. In addition, Barker provides his own conception, with a wink toward Wittgenstein, of cultural studies as a 'language game.' For those who want to be prepped to play the game of cultural studies, this is the book to read
Douglas Kellner
UCLA, author of Guys and Guns Amok and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy

Product details

• Authors: Chris Barker
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2011
• EAN: 9780857024800
• ISBN: 978-0-85702-480-0
• No. of pages: 584
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology