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Introducing cultural studies : learning through practice /

"An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge ... Innovative, creative and clever"--Times Higher Education 'What a weird and wonderful book. It is the Ronseal of Cultural Studies Literature; it does what it says on the tin ... the ideal t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walton, David, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : SAGE, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Part I: High Cultural Gladiators: Some Influential Early Models of Cultural Analysis; Chapter One: Culture and Anarchy in the UK: a dialogue with Matthew Arnold; Chapter Two: The Leavisites and T.S. Eliot Combat Mass Urban Culture; Chapter Three: Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the 'Culture Industry'; Part II: The Transformative Power of Working-Class Culture; Chapter Four: From A Day Out at the Seasside to the Milk Bar: Richard Hoggart and Working-Class Culture; Chapter Five: E.P. Thompson and Working-Class Culture as a Site of Conflict, Consciousness and Resistance.
  • Chapter Six: Towards a Recognizable Theory of Culture: Raymond WilliamsPart III: Consolidating Cultural Studies: Subcultures, the Popular, Ideology and Hegemony; Chapter Seven: Introducing Stuart Hall: The Importance and Re-evaluation of Popular Mass Culture; Chapter Eight: Youth Subcultures and Resistance: a Dialogue with Quadrophenia; Chapter Nine: Subcultures and Widening Horizons: Further Strategies for Practice; Chapter Ten: How to Dominate the Masses without Resorting to the Inquisition: Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony Theory.
  • Chapter Eleven: A Few Ways you might Adapt Louis Althusser's Ideas to Cultural Studies: A Dialogue with Dr Jekyll and Mr HydePart IV: Probing the Margins, Remembering the Forgotten: Representation, Subordination and Identity; Chapter Twelve: Crying Woolf! Thinking with Feminism; Chapter Thirteen: Adapting Theory to Explore Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality: the Case of East is East; Part V: Honing Your Skills, Conclusions and 'Begin-endings'; Chapter Fourteen: Heuristic Thinking, Creative Cri-tickle Acts and Further Research; Index.