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9780745636849

Cultural Studies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745636849

  • ISBN10:

    0745636845

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-12-22
  • Publisher: Polity

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Summary

What has the death of Corporal Patrick D. Tillman of the US Army Rangers in an incident of friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 got to do with culture? How has the study of ideology, coding, theming and representation by Cultural Studies helped us to understand Reality TV, the Internet, mobile phones, the iPod and leading brands in neat capitalism like Virgin, The Body Shop and Apple? This lively and assured book provides a concise and authoritative critical guide to Cultural Studies. It demonstrates that the field has moved through four moments': the National/Popular, the Textual/Representational, Global/Post Essentialism and Governmentality/Policy. It illustrates the meaning of each of these moments by a discussion of representative texts and concrete examples from popular culture. As such, it achieves a novel and accessible account of the origins and development of the field. The book also shows how the readers personal experience can be systematically situated in cultural forces and used as a resource to clarify how culture works, through the analysis of on-location practice, embodiment, emplacement and context. Packed with illuminating examples, and a clear and compelling prose style, the book is the antidote to abstract, hazy accounts of the meaning and value of Cultural Studies. It is the ideal text for readers new to the field, but it will also be appreciated by established practitioners as good to think with.

Author Biography

Chris Rojek, Professor of Sociology and Culture, Brunel University West London

Table of Contents

Culture Countsp. 1
The local and the globalp. 2
Media genre and cultural representationp. 4
The meaning of culturep. 5
The culture of 'friendly fire'p. 7
Doing Cultural Studiesp. 10
The case of Reality TVp. 12
The internetp. 18
The mobile phonep. 21
Multiple modernitiesp. 22
Culture is Structured Like a Languagep. 24
The imaginaryp. 25
The 3 D'sp. 27
Zeroing in on Culturep. 29
The origins of Cultural Studiesp. 30
Postwar Cultural Studiesp. 33
Culture is ordinaryp. 37
The Four 'Moments' In Cultural Studiesp. 39
National-Popular (1956-84)p. 40
Textual-Representational (1958-95)p. 48
Globalization/Post-Essentialism (1980-)p. 55
Governmentality/Policy (1985-)p. 61
Cultural Studies at the crossroadsp. 66
Situating Yourself in Culturep. 69
Locationp. 70
Embodimentp. 76
Emplacementp. 85
Contextp. 92
Modernity and postmodernityp. 97
Cultural Distortionp. 101
Cultural representation, ideology and hegemonyp. 103
Ideologyp. 104
Cultures are not monolithicp. 105
Mechanical reproduction and aesthetic culturep. 106
Imaginary illusion and symbolic fictionp. 108
Lara Croft/cyborg culturep. 110
Neat Capitalismp. 115
The emergence of neat capitalismp. 119
The meaning of neat capitalismp. 122
Generation X and Yp. 126
The Body Shopp. 127
Applep. 129
Neat capitalism: the basicsp. 131
Neat Publishingp. 135
Cultural Studies and the anti-establishmentp. 138
The Urbana-Champaign conferencesp. 141
Routledgep. 143
Concluslon: The 'Long March' of the Cultural Imaginaryp. 151
The market solutionp. 153
The state solutionp. 154
Another culturep. 157
Notesp. 162
Referencesp. 163
Author Indexp. 169
Subject Indexp. 171
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