Introducing Cultural Studies : Learning through Practice

by David Walton

• ISBN13: 9781412918947
• ISBN10: 1412918944
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781446230367
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-14
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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Summary

The fundamental task facing students of cultural studies is to apply theory to critical practice.  Introducing Cultural Studies: Learning through Practice  provides readers with the conceptual tools to practice cultural analysis for themselves.  Further, readers will: Get a basic idea of the historical development of cultural studies Become familiar with important critics in the British cultural studies tradition Get a concise but critically aware introduction to key concepts Become conversant with some of the main areas of interest to cultural studies Develop awareness of how theory can be transformed into practice Develop the skills required to produce well-argued and informed projects See, from numerous practical examples, how concepts work in practiceEach chapter has a short introduction to explain the basic content and a brief description of the main learning goals.  Chapters are concluded with brief summaries, references and advice on further reading.  The book is full of exercises to motivate readers to respond to the book in an active and enjoyable way. This book, by combining heuristic thinking with creative-critical approaches, provides undergraduates with an assured, witty, engaging and essential introduction to cultural studies. David Walton is affiliated with the Universidad de Murcia, and is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

High Culture Gladiators: Some Influential Early Models of Cultural Analysis

Culture and Anarchy in the UK

A Dialogue with Matthew Arnold The Leavisites and T.S. Eliot Combat Mass Urban Culture Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the 'Culture Industry'

The Transformative Power of Working-Class Culture

From a Day Out at the Seaside to the Milk Bar

Richard Hoggart and Working-Class Culture

E.P. Thompson and Working-Class Culture as a Site for Conflict, Consciousness and Resistance

Towards a Recognizable Theory of Culture

Consolidating Cultural Studies: Subcultures, The Popular, Ideology And Hegemony

Introducing Stuart Hall

The Importance and Re-evaluation of Popular Mass Culture

Youth Subcultures and Resistance

A Dialogue with /f003Quadrophenia Subcultures and Widening Horizons

Further Strategies for Practice

How to Dominate the Masses Without Resorting to the Inquisition

Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony Theory

A Few Ways

You Might Adapt Ideas from Louis Althusser to Cultural Studies a Dialogue with

Probing The Margins, Remembering the Forgotten: Representation, Subordination and Identity

Crying Woolf!

Thinking with Feminism

Adapting Theory to Explore Race

Ethnicity and Sexuality

The Case of East is East

Honing Your Skills, Conclusions and 'Begin-Endings'

Consolidating Practice

Heuristic Thinking Creative Cri-tickle Acts and Further Research

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