Doing cultural theory /

"Doing Cultural Theory is a textbook and a toolkit that teaches the basics of cultural theory, unpacks its complexities with real-life examples, and shows readers how to link theory and practice. Offers accessible introductions to how cultural studies has engaged with key theories in structural...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walton, David, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Los Angeles : Sage, 2012.
Subjects:
Culture > Philosophy.
Culture > Study and teaching > Great Britain.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Popular culture > Study and teaching > Great Britain.
Popular culture > Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cultural Studies: A Brief Contextual History
  • Structuralism and the Linguistic Turn: Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Semiotics: Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes and Stuart Hall
  • Ideology: Marxism and Louis Althusser
  • Post-Structuralism: Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida
  • Doing Deconstruction: Techniques for Practice
  • Psychoanalysis: Jacques Lacan
  • Applying Lacan: Techniques for Feminist and other forms of Cultural Analysis
  • Discourse and Power: Michel Foucault
  • Gender and Sexuality: Judith Butler
  • The Postmodern Condition: Daniel Bell, Jean-François Lyotard and Jürgen Habermas
  • Identity and Consumption: Jean Baudrillard
  • Postmodernism Unplugged: Fredric Jameson
  • Practising Cultural Studies: Hegemony and Cognitive Mapping
  • Where to Go from Here: Cognitive Mapping and the Critical Project of Cultural Studies.

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