ABSTRACT

Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultural Studies, designed to provoke discussion and raise questions. Each thematic section examines and explains a key topic within Cultural Studies.
Sections include:
* the discipline
* time
* space
* media and the public sphere
* identity
* sexuality and gender
* value

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part 1 THE DISCIPLINE

chapter 1|9 pages

1 Going global

chapter 1|5 pages

2 Enterprise culture

chapter 1|19 pages

3 Genres and genealogies

chapter 1|11 pages

4 Problems

part |2 pages

Part 2 TIME

chapter 2|8 pages

2 The present

chapter 2|10 pages

3 The future: policies and prophesies

part |2 pages

Part 3 SPACE

chapter 3|15 pages

1 Thinking globalisation

chapter 3|11 pages

2 The regional, national and local

part |2 pages

Part 4 MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE

chapter 4|15 pages

1 Television

chapter 4|12 pages

2 Popular music

chapter 4|7 pages

3 The Internet and technoculture

part |2 pages

Part 5 IDENTITY

chapter 5|8 pages

1 Debating identity

chapter 5|8 pages

2 Multiculturalism

chapter 5|8 pages

3 Race

part |2 pages

Part 6 SEXUALITY AND GENDER

chapter 6|12 pages

1 Feminism's aftermath: gender today

chapter 6|8 pages

2 Queer culture

part |2 pages

Part 7 VALUE

chapter 7|15 pages

1 Culture high and low

chapter 7|6 pages

2 The nature of culture