Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies

by Turner,Graeme; Turner,Graeme

• ISBN13: 9780415088862
• ISBN10: 0415088860
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Nation, Culture, Textis the first collection of work in cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership. Participating in the 'de-centering' of cultural studies--considering what perspectives non-Europeans or Americans have to offer--the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition of critical theory, and about the cultural specificity of theory itself. Contributors:Tony Bennett, Stuart Cunningham, Ross Gibson, Pam Gilbert, Helen Grace, Ian Hunter, Elizabeth Jacka, Eric Michaels, Meaghan Morris, Virginia Nightingale, Tom O'Regan, Noel Sanders, John and Marian Tulloch.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Moving the margins: theory, practice and Australian cultural studies	p. 1
Nation, Culture, Text	p. 15
Panorama: the live, the dead and the living	p. 19
The Fire Ceremony: for a cultural future	p. 59
Cultural Policy and National Culture	p. 67
The shape of the past	p. 72
The rise and fall of entrepreneurial TV: Australian TV, 1986-90	p. 91
Australian cinema: an anachronism in the 1980s?	p. 106
Cultural Studies and the Analysis of Culture	p. 123
Cultural studies from the viewpoint of cultural policy	p. 126
Setting limits to culture	p. 140
What's 'ethnographic' about ethnographic audience research?	p. 164
Popular Culture and the Media	p. 179
Azaria Chamberlain and popular culture	p. 184
Business, pleasure, narrative: the folktale in our times	p. 199
Understanding TV violence: a multifaceted cultural analysis	p. 211
Reading the romance	p. 246
Index	p. 257
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