Cultural Studies in Question

by Marjorie Ferguson; Peter Golding

• ISBN13: 9780803979239
• ISBN10: 0803979231
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-23
• 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

Notes on Contributors	vii	(3)
Preface	x	(3)
Cultural Studies and Changing Times: An Introduction	xiii
Marjorie Ferguson
Peter Golding
Part One: Questions and Critique	1	(120)
1 Reflections on the Project of (American) Cultural Studies	1	(24)
James W. Carey
2 The Anti-political Populism of Cultural Studies	25	(14)
Todd Gitlin
3 Policy Help Wanted: Willing and Able Media Culturalists Please Apply	39	(17)
Denis McQuail
4 Political Economy and the Practice of Cultural Studies	56	(18)
Nicholas Garnham
5 Dominance and Ideology in Culture and Cultural Studies	74	(12)
Sari Thomas
6 Base Notes: The Conditions of Cultural Practice	86	(16)
Graham Murdock
7 Overcoming the Divide: Cultural Studies and Political Economy	102	(19)
Douglas Kellner
Part Two: Answers and Alternatives	121	(106)
8 Theoretical Orthodoxies: Textualism, Constructivism and the `New Ethnography' in Cultural Studies	121	(17)
David Morley
9 Cultural Populism Revisited	138	(17)
Jim McGuigan
10 Imagining the Audience: Losses and Gains in Cultural Studies	155	(15)
Joli Jensen
John J. Pauly
11 The Es and the Anti-Es: New Questions for Feminism and Cultural Studies	170	(17)
Angela McRobbie
12 Cultural Studies, Communication and Change: Eastern Europe to the Urals	187	(18)
John D. H. Downing
13 From Codes to Utterances: Cultural Studies, Discourse and Psychology	205	(22)
Michael Billig
Bibliography	227	(16)
Index	243