Cultural Studies in Question

by Marjorie Ferguson; Peter Golding

• ISBN13: 9780803979246
• ISBN10: 080397924X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-09
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

This major text offers a critical reappraisal of the contemporary practice of cultural studies. It focuses in particular on the contribution of cultural studies to the understanding of media, communications and popular cultures in contemporary societies. The contributors, an outstanding group of internationally acclaimed scholars, examine topics such as: the different strands of cultural studies and how they are developed; whether cultural studies is a coherent discipline; tensions and debates within cultural studies; alternative or related approaches to contemporary media and society; and the movement by cultural studies revisionists towards more empirical and sociological modes of analysis.

Table of Contents

Cultural Studies and Changing Times - Marjorie Ferguson and Peter Golding

An Introduction

PART ONE: QUESTIONS AND CRITIQUE

Reflections on the Project of (American) Cultural Studies - James W Carey

The Anti-Political Populism of Cultural Studies - Todd Gitlin

Policy Help Wanted - Denis McQuail

Willing and Able Media Culturalists Please Apply

Political Economy and the Practice of Cultural Studies - Nicholas Garnham

Dominance and Ideology in Culture and Cultural Studies - Sari Thomas

Base Notes - Graham Murdock

The Conditions of Cultural Practice

Overcoming the Divide - Douglas Kellner

Cultural Studies and Political Economy

PART TWO: ANSWERS AND ALTERNATIVES

Theoretical Orthodoxies - David Morley

Textualism, Constructivism and the 'New Ethnography' in Cultural Studies

Cultural Populism Revisited - Jim McGuigan

Imagining the Audience - Joli Jensen and John J Pauly

Losses and Gains in Cultural Studies

The E's and the Anti-E's - Angela McRobbie

New Questions for Feminism and Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies, Communication and Change - John D H Downing

Eastern Europe to the Urals

From Codes to Utterances - Michael Billig

Cultural Studies, Discourse and Psychology