This lively and stimulating resource book for students of cultural studies traces the formation of the field in Britain and its subsequent development internationally. Classic statements of culturalist, semiological, and postmodernist perspectives are contrasted with less familiar materialillustrating the impact of feminism and the politics of sexuality, ethnicity, and race. This second, greatly expanded edition includes a new section exploring recent important work in international cultural studies, and provides key readings on the social construction of the self and the role ofpublic policy in the cultural field.

Acknowledgements

vii

(4)

Introduction

xi

Section 1 Some foundations

5

(90)

Raymond Williams

1 `Culture is ordinary'

5

(10)

Roland Barthes

2 `The rhetoric of the image'

15

(13)

Stuart Hall

3 `The television discourse - encoding and decoding'

28

(7)

Richard Dyer

Terry Lovell

Jean McCrindle

4 `Soap opera and women'

35

(7)

Edward Said

5 `Orientalism'

42

(12)

Nicholas Garnham

6 `Concepts of culture - public policy and the cultural industries'

54

(8)

Janice Radway

7 `Reading Reading the romance'

62

(18)

Graham Murdock

8 `Cultural studies at the crossroads'

80

(15)

Section 2 Difference and identity

95

(84)

Phil Cohen

9 `Subcultural conflict and working-class community'

95

(9)

Erica Carter

10 `Alice in the consumer wonderland'

104

(18)

Paul Gilroy

11 `Black and white on the dance-floor'

122

(12)

Stuart Hall

12 `Minimal selves'

134

(5)

Bhikhu Parekh

13 `Between holy text and moral void'

139

(8)

Marie Gillespie

14 `Technology and tradition - audio - visual culture among south Asian families in west London'

147

(14)

Kobena Mercer

15 `Just looking for trouble - Robert Mapplethorpe and fantasies of race'

161

(18)

Section 3 Meaning and power

179

(68)

Liz Curtis

16 `Echoes of the present - the Victorian press and Ireland'

188

(4)

Judith Williamson

17 `Meaning and ideology'

188

(4)

Fredric Jameson

18 `Postmodernism and consumer society'

192

(14)

Paul Willis

19 `Symbolic creativity'

206

(11)

Mike Davis

20 `The view from futures past'

217

(8)

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

21 `Fictions of Europe'

225

(7)

Doreen Massey

22 `A global sense of place'

232

(15)

Section 4 Social selves and public policy

247

Pierre Bourdieu

23 `The new petite bourgeoisie'

247

(9)

Susan Christopherson

Michael Storper

24 `The city as studio; the world as back lot: the impact of vertical disintegration on the location of the motion picture industry'

256

(19)

Cornel West

25 `Nihilism in black America'

275

(7)

Barbara Einhorn

26 `Can Cinderella become a citizen?'

282

(5)

Elspeth Probyn

27 `A problematic - speaking the self'

287

(19)

Stuart Cunningham

28 `Cultural studies from the viewpoint of cultural policy'

306

(13)

Manuel Castells

29 `European cities, the informational society, and the global economy'

319

(14)

Ken Plummer

30 `An invitation to a sociology of stories'

333

(13)

Julian Stallabrass

31 `Empowering technology'

346

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