British Cultural Studies

by Turner,Graeme

• ISBN13: 9780415252270
• ISBN10: 041525227X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This third edition of a popular text offers an accessible overview of the central themes: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
PART I First principles	7	(62)
The idea of cultural studies	9	(24)
Language and culture	10	(3)
Semiotics and signification	13	(4)
Marxism and ideology	17	(3)
Individualism and subjectivity	20	(2)
Texts, contexts and discourses	22	(4)
Applying the principles	26	(7)
The British tradition: a short history	33	(36)
Hoggart and The Uses of Literacy	38	(3)
Raymond Williams	41	(14)
E. P. Thompson and culturalism	55	(3)
Stuart Hall	58	(4)
The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies	62	(3)
Other `centres'	65	(4)
PART II Central categories	69	(163)
Texts and contexts	71	(38)
Encoding/decoding	72	(5)
The establishment of textual analysis	77	(12)
Dethroning the text	89	(6)
Polysemy, ambiguity and reading texts	95	(11)
Textual events	106	(3)
Audiences	109	(34)
Morley and the Nationwide audience	109	(4)
Watching with the audience: Dorothy Hobson and Crossroads	113	(6)
Widening the frame: TV in the home	119	(5)
Text and audience: Buckingham's East Enders	124	(6)
Media audiences and ethnography	130	(4)
The audience as fiction	134	(4)
From reception to consumption	138	(5)
Ethnographies, histories and sociologies	143	(23)
Ethnography	143	(9)
Historians and cultural studies	152	(7)
Sociology, cultural studies and media institutions	159	(7)
Ideology	166	(30)
The return of the repressed	168	(9)
The turn to Gramsci	177	(4)
The retreat from ideology: resistance, pleasure and the new revisionism	181	(8)
Postmodernism	189	(7)
Politics	196	(29)
Politics, class and cultural studies	196	(6)
Women take issue	202	(5)
There ain't no black ...	207	(5)
Identity	212	(3)
New ethnicities	215	(4)
From consumer to citizen	219	(6)
Conclusion	225	(7)
`Doing' cultural studies	225	(3)
The circuit of culture	228	(2)
Conclusion	230	(2)
Notes	232	(4)
Bibliography	236	(16)
About the author	252	(1)
Index	253