The Cultural Studies Reader: Second Edition

The first edition of The Cultural Studies Reader established itself as the leader in the field, providing the ideal introduction to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers a wider selection of essays covering every major cultural studies method and theory, and takes account of recent changes in the field. There are added articles on new areas such as technology and science, globalization, postcolonialism and cultural policy, making The Cultural Studies Reader essential reading for anyone wanting to know how cultural studies developed, where it is now, and its future directions. Contributors: Ackbar Abbas, Theodor Adorno, Arjun Appadurai, Roland Barthes, Tony Bennett, Lauren Berlant, Homi K. Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Rey Chow, James Clifford, Michel de Certeau, Teresa de Lauretis, Richard Dyer, David Forgacs, Michel Foucault, Nancy Fraser, Nicholas Garnham, Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway, Dick Hebdige, bell hooks, Max Horkheimer, Eric Lott, Jean Francois Lyotard, Angela McRobbie, Meaghan Morris, Hamid Naficy, Janice Radway, Andrew Ross, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Edward Soja, Gayatri Spivak, Peter Stallybrass, Carolyn Steedman, Will Straw, Michael Warner, Cornel West, Allon White, Raymond Williams. Introduction / Simon During -- Part One. Theory And Method -- The Culture Industry: Enlightenment As Mass Deception / Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer -- Dominici, Or The Triumph Of Literature / Roland Barthes -- Culture, Cultural Studies And The Historians / Carolyn Steedman -- On Collecting Art And Culture / James Clifford -- The Place Of Walter Benjamin In Cultural Studies / Angela Mcrobbie -- Cultural Studies And Its Theoretical Legacies / Stuart Hall -- Part Two. Space And Time -- History: Geography: Modernity / Edward Soja -- Walking In The City / Michel De Certeau -- Space, Power And Knowledge / Michel Foucault -- Defining The Postmodern / Jean-françois Lyotard -- Building On Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture And Colonial Space / Ackbar Abbas -- Part Three. Nationalism, Postcolonialism And Globalization -- Scattered Speculations On The Question Of Cultural Studies / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- The Postcolonial And The Postmodern: The Question Of Agency / Homi K. Bhabha -- National-popular: Genealogy Of A Concept / David Forgacs -- Disjuncture And Difference In The Global Cultural Economy / Arjun Appadurai -- Part Four. Ethnicity And Multiculturalism -- A Revolution Of Values: The Promise Of Multicultural Change / Bell Hooks -- Racial Cross-dressing And The Construction Of American Whiteness / Eric Lott -- The New Cultural Politics Of Difference / Cornel West -- Part Five. Science And Cyberculture -- A Cyborg Manifesto / Donna Haraway -- The Challenge Of Science / Andrew Ross -- Part Six. Sexuality And Gender -- Upping The Anti [sic] In Feminist Theory / Teresa De Lauretis -- Axiomatic / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Subjects Of Sex/gender/desire / Judith Butler -- Sex In Public / Lauren Berlant, Michael Warner -- Part Seven. Carnival And Utopia -- Entertainment And Utopia / Richard Dyer -- Bourgeois Hysteria And The Carnivalesque / Peter Stallybrass, Allon White -- Part Eight. Consumption And The Market -- Things To Do With Shopping Centres / Meaghan Morris -- Advertising: The Magic System / Raymond Williams -- Part Nine. Leisure -- How Can One Be A Sports Fan? / Pierre Bourdieu -- The Function Of Subculture / Dick Hebdige -- Characterizing Rock Music Culture: The Case Of Heavy Metal / Will Straw -- Listening Otherwise, Music Miniaturized: A Different Type Of Question About Revolution / Rey Chow -- Part Ten. Culture -- Political Economy And Policy -- Putting Policy Into Cultural Studies / Tony Bennett -- Political Economy And Cultural Studies / Nicholas Garnham -- Part Eleven. Media And Public Spheres -- Encoding, Decoding / Stuart Hall -- Rethinking The Public Sphere: A Contribution To The Critique Of Actually Existing Democracy / Nancy Fraser -- The Making Of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television In Los Angeles / Hamid Naficy -- The Institutional Matrix Of Romance / Janice A. Radway. Edited By Simon During. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [577]-599) And Index. The first edition of The Cultural Studies Reader established itself as a leading textbook in the field, providing the ideal introduction for students to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers a wider selection of essays covering every major cultural studies method and theory, and takes account of recent changes in the field with articles on new areas such as technology and science, globalisation, postcolonialism and cultural policy, making The Cultural Studies Reader essential reading for any student wanting to know how cultural studies developed, where it is now, and its future directions The first edition of The Cultural Studies Reader established itself as the leader in the field, providing the ideal introduction for to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers a wider selection of essays covering every major cultural studies method and theory, and takes account of recent changes in the field. There are added articles on new areas such as technology and science, globalization, postcolonialism and cultural policy, making The Cultural Studies Reader essential for anyone wanting to know how cultural studies developed where it is now, and its future directions. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 11 1. Theory and method......Page 46 2. Space and time......Page 128 3. Nationalism, postcolonialism and globalization......Page 184 4. Ethnicity and multiculturalism......Page 248 5. Science and cyberculture......Page 286 6. Sexuality and gender......Page 322 7. Carnival and utopia......Page 386 8. Consumption and the market......Page 406 9. Leisure......Page 442 10. Culture – political economy and policy......Page 494 11. Media and public spheres......Page 522 Bibliography......Page 592 Index......Page 616 Cultural Studies Preliminaries 1 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 11 1. Theory and method 46 2. Space and time 128 3. Nationalism, postcolonialism and globalization 184 4. Ethnicity and multiculturalism 248 5. Science and cyberculture 286 6. Sexuality and gender 322 7. Carnival and utopia 386 8. Consumption and the market 406 9. Leisure 442 10. Culture – political economy and policy 494 11. Media and public spheres 522 Bibliography 592 Index 616 This book collects representative essays in cultural studies as an introduction to this increasingly popular field of study.