Culture

What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?

Culture offers students a workable understanding of the category 'culture' and explores how the realm of the 'cultural' can be practically explored as a way of understanding the world.

Ben Highmore provides a clear and robust defence of the productivity of cultural analysis in a media saturated world, while also instilling a sense of modesty in qualifying what can and can't be accomplished in the name of cultural analysis.

With extensive examples and case studies throughout, the book demonstrates both the productivity and the limitations in orientating analysis to the cultural.

A thought-provoking and engaging examination, Culture is an ideal introductory text for students of media and cultural studies.

List of contents

A note to the reader 1. Introduction 2. Landscape 3. A Whole Way of Life 4. Politics 5. Experience 6. Death 7. Two Cheers for Culture? Bibliography

About the author

Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is a key author in cultural studies and his research is broadly concerned with the culture of everyday life. His publications include A Passion for Cultural Studies (2009) and Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday (2011).

Product details

• Authors: Ben Highmore, Ben (University of Sussex Highmore, Highmore Ben
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2015
• EAN: 9780415672740
• ISBN: 978-0-415-67274-0
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social