ABSTRACT

Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultural Studies, designed to provoke discussion and raise questions. Each thematic section examines and explains a key topic within Cultural Studies.
Sections include:
* the discipline
* time
* space
* media and the public sphere
* identity
* sexuality and gender
* value

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

part 1|46 pages

The Discipline

chapter 1.1|10 pages

Going global

chapter 1.2|5 pages

Enterprise culture

chapter 1.3|19 pages

Genres and genealogies

chapter 1.4|11 pages

Problems

part 2|30 pages

Time

chapter 2.2|8 pages

The present

part 3|28 pages

Space

chapter 3.1|16 pages

Thinking globalisation

chapter 3.2|11 pages

The regional, national and local

part 4|36 pages

Media and The Public Sphere

chapter 4.1|16 pages

Television

chapter 4.2|12 pages

Popular music

chapter 4.3|7 pages

The Internet and technoculture

part 5|26 pages

Identity

chapter 5.1|9 pages

Debating identity

chapter 5.2|8 pages

Multiculturalism

chapter 5.3|8 pages

Race

part 6|22 pages

Sexuality and Gender

chapter 6.2|8 pages

Queer culture

part 7|23 pages

Value

chapter 7.1|16 pages

Culture high and low

chapter 7.2|6 pages

The nature of culture

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion