Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies

Author: Michael Ryan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-01-22

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781444320657

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This hands-on survey introduces students to the diverse fields that comprise cultural studies, from visual culture to popular music and new media. It can be used as a standalone text or is the perfect companion volume to Ryan's Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Provides a comprehensive overview of the field, from cyberculture and digital media to fashion and new formulations of gender identity Includes student exercises and activities for each chapter Teaches cultural analysis through practical examples and application Gives students across disciplines the tools to become practitioners of Cultural Studies and active cultural analysts The perfect companion volume to Ryan's Cultural Studies Anthology (2008)

Cultural Studies of Rights
Cultural Studies of Rights

Author: John Nguyet Erni

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1317979346

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At a time of global uncertainties and erosion of liberties, how will cultural studies clear a space for a parallel intellectual and political engagement with human rights practice? How will human rights thinking be liberated from its doctrinal approach to ethics and legal justice? This book forges an alliance between cultural studies and human rights scholarships, to help us better understand the changing and complex political context that continuously shapes contemporary violence. To date, interdisciplinary dialogue or institutional collaboration remains rare across the two domains, resulting in critical interpretive work appearing too vacuous at times and institutional legal work often trapped in doctrinalism. By opening a door for a new and engaging scholarship, this book will re-ignite debates and passions within communication and critical cultural studies in the search for global justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies
The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies

Author: Michael Bérubé

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 047077732X

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The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflect on its recuperation in the field. Contains first-rate, original essays that analyze the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflect on its recuperation in the field. Contributors are leading scholars, internationally based. Includes substantial introductory material by the editor.

Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Author: Stephen Nugent

Publisher: Pluto Press

Published: 1997-10-20

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780745311357

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The contributors chart a new agenda for anthropology in an increasingly shared terrain of globally interacting cultures and identities.

Food and Cultural Studies
Food and Cultural Studies

Author: Bob Ashley

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780415270380

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This book re-examines the interdisciplinary history of food studies from a cultural studies framework, exploring subjects such as food and nation, the gendering of eating in, the phenomenon of TV chefs, vegetarianism, risk and moral panics.

Cultural Studies As Critical Theory
Cultural Studies As Critical Theory

Author: Ben Agger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1134080174

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Examines the field of cultural studies and argues for its relevance in addressing the enormous impact of popular culture and mass media today. Among the perspectives analysed are the Marxist sociology of culture and poststructural/postmodern analysis

Cultural Studies - The Basics
Cultural Studies - The Basics

Author: Jeff Lewis

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2002-06-03

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780761963257

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`To say that the scope of the book's coverage is wide-ranging would be an under-statement. Few texts come to mind that have attempted such a thorough overview of the central tenets of cultural studies' - Stuart Allan, University of West of England This is a book for anyone who wants an unfussy, authoritative critical introduction to Cultural Studies. It equips you with all that you need to know about theories of cultural studies: what they say, how they differ from one another and what are the strengths and weaknesses of each position. It provides biographical information on major theorists plus assessments of key texts. Unlike other competing books in the field, Cultural Studies - The Basics demonstrates what a Cultural Studies approach can do to illuminate basic areas of contemporary culture. Included are chapters on: - Feminism - The Body - Cultural Space - Communications Technology - Cultural Policy - Language and Culture. The book is designed to be used and read by students who face the pressures of essay dead-lines, examinations and dissertations. Above all it approaches Cultural Studies as something that needs to be used as well as studied.

The Cultural Studies Reader
The Cultural Studies Reader

Author: Simon During

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0415137543

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The Cultural Studies Readeris essential reading for any student wanting to know how cultural studies developed, where it is now, and its future directions.

Doing Cultural Studies
Doing Cultural Studies

Author: Paul du Gay

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780761954026

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In recent years `culture' has become a central concern in a wide range of fields and disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this `turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, the book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such a crucial part in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.