Cultural Studies and the New Humanities
Cultural Studies and the New Humanities

Author: Patrick Fuery

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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The contemporary humanities--which stretch from "intertextuality" to "queer theory"--are a disciplinary minefield of new theories and controversies. Where does the traditional view of the humanities belong in today's arena? Or does it still belong to begin with? And how should that view be defined nowadays? This book explores some of the new ways of thinking about the liberal arts and human sciences by providing historical backgrounds, defining key terms, and introducing the ideas of important personalities.

Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity
Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity

Author: Julie Thompson Klein

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0791482677

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The study of culture in the American academy is not confined to a single field, but is a broad-based set of interests located within and across disciplines. This book investigates the relationship among three major ideas in the American academy—interdisciplinarity, humanities, and culture—and traces the convergence of these ideas from the colonial college to new scholarly developments in the latter half of the twentieth century. Its aim is twofold: to define the changing relationship of these three ideas and, in the course of doing so, to extend present thinking about the concept of "American cultural studies." The book includes two sets of case studies—the first on the implications of interdisciplinarity for literary studies, art history, and music; the second on the shifting trajectories of American studies, African American studies, and women's studies—and concludes by asking what impact new scholarly practices have had on humanities education, particularly on the undergraduate curriculum.

Research Methods for Cultural Studies
Research Methods for Cultural Studies

Author: Michael Pickering

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2008-02-22

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0748631194

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This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides readers with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation.The book covers the following main areas:* Drawing on experience, and studying how narratives make sense of experience.* Investigating production processes in the cultural industries, and the consumption and assimilation of cultural products by audiences and fans.* Taking both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of cultural life.* Analysing visual images and both spoken and written forms of discourse.* Exploring cultural memory and historical representation.

Toward an Urban Cultural Studies
Toward an Urban Cultural Studies

Author: Benjamin Fraser

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1137498560

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Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.

Context in Literary and Cultural Studies
Context in Literary and Cultural Studies

Author: Jakob Ladegaard

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2019-06-24

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1787356248

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Context in Literary and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that deals with the challenges of studying works of art and literature in their historical context today. The relationship between artworks and context has long been a central concern for aesthetic and cultural disciplines, and the question of context has been asked anew in all eras. Developments in contemporary culture and technology, as well as new theoretical and methodological orientations in the humanities, once again prompt us to rethink context in literary and cultural studies. This volume takes up that challenge. Introducing readers to new developments in literary and cultural theory, Context in Literary and Cultural Studies connects all disciplines related to these areas to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the challenges different scholarly fields today meet in their studies of artworks in context. Spanning a number of countries, and covering subjects from nineteenth-century novels to rave culture, the chapters together constitute an informed, diverse and wide-ranging discussion. The volume is written for scholarly readers at all levels in the fields of Literary Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Art History, Film, Theatre Studies and Digital Humanities.

Cultural Turns
Cultural Turns

Author: Doris Bachmann-Medick

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 3110403072

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The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural turns. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking reorientations. It discusses the value of the new focuses and their analytical categories for the work of a wide range of disciplines. In addition to chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, spatial and iconic turns, it discusses emerging directions of research. Drawing on a wealth of international research, this book maps central topics and approaches in the study of culture and thus provides systematic impetus for changed disciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the humanities and beyond – e.g., in the fields of sociology, economics and the study of religion. This work is the English translation by Adam Blauhut of an influential German book that has now been completely revised. It is a stimulating example of a cross-cultural translation between different theoretical cultures and also the first critical synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world.

Visual Cultures and Critical Theory
Visual Cultures and Critical Theory

Author: Patrick Fuery

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780340807477

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We live in a world of the image. In many ways images have replaced words as the defining aspect of cultural identity, while at the same time they have become part of our global culture. The rapidly developing discipline of visual cultural studies has become the key area for examining the issues of the image. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory provides students with a clear guide for understanding ideas of critical theory through the visual. Taking up a range of themes such as spectatorship, pleasure, power, doubles, hallucination, and the frame, the book explains them within the context of the theoretical developments in psychoanalysis, cultural theory, postmodernism, Queer theory, gender studies, and narrative theory.

Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities
Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities

Author: Janetta Rebold Benton

Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed

Published: 2013-10-03

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1292051922

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For an undergraduate introductory level course in humanities. An introduction to the world’s major civilizations. This Fourth Edition is an introduction to the world’s major civilizations–to their artistic achievements, their history, and their cultures. Through an integrated approach to the humanities, Arts and Culture offers an opportunity to view works of art, read literature, and listen to music in historical and cultural contexts. In studying the humanities, we focus our attention on works of art, literature, and music that reflect and embody the central values and beliefs of particular cultures and specific historical moments.

Contemporary Culture
Contemporary Culture

Author: Judith Thissen

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789048517961

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Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets due to a deep and prolonged recession, the exigency of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question. This volume claims that the humanities do indeed matter by offering empirically-grounded critical reflections on contemporary cultural practices, thereby opening up new ways of understanding social life and new directions in humanities scholarship.

The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities
The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities

Author: Jentery Sayers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 1317549082

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Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, culture, and practice. Topics include: access, praxis, social justice, design, interaction, interfaces, mediation, materiality, remediation, data, memory, making, programming, and hacking.