Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-467) and index.

Introduction / Simon During -- The culture industry : enlightenment as mass deception / Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- Dominici, or the triumph of literature / Roland Barthes -- On collecting art and culture / James Clifford -- Upping the anti [sic] in feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis -- Encoding, decoding / Stuart Hall -- After objectivism / Renato Rosaldo -- Negetive images: towards a black femenist cultural criticism / Michele Wallace -- History: geography: modernity / Edward Soja -- Walking in the city / Michel de Certeau -- Space, power and knowledge / Michel Foucault -- Defining the postmodern / Jean-Fran�cois Lyotard -- National-popular: geneology of a concept / David Forgacs -- Questions of multiculturalism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Sneja Gunew -- The new cultural politics of difference / Cornel West -- The popularity of pornography / Andrew Ross -- Axiomatic / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Entertainment and utopia / Richard Dyer -- Bourgeois hysteria and the carnivalesque / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Things to do with shopping centres / Meaghan Morris -- Advertising: the magic system / Raymond Williams -- How can one be a sports fan? / Pierre Bourdieu -- From culture to hegemony / 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 -- Dallas and the ideology of mass culture / Ien Ang -- International image ...

"The Cultural Studies Reader" provides an introduction for students of this discipline. It presents a selection of influential and innovative essays in the field by writers such as Barthes, Adorno, Lyotard, Stuart Hall and Gayatri Spivak, with a succinct introduction to each. The book encompasses a wide range of topics, from sport to postmodernism, from museums to supermarkets, from gay writing to rock and roll, and covers every important cultural studies method and theory. The book can be used as much more than an introductory anthology: Simon During's introduction to the field surveys the history and development of cultural studies, from its origins in sociological analysis of post-war Britain to its present as a truly trans-national discipline. Looking at the future possibilities for cultural studies, he argues that cultural studies methodologies offer great potential for confronting such contemporary issues as postcolonialism, globalization and multiculturalism. -- Description from http://Amazon.com (Feb. 22, 2012). Presents selected essays by writers such as Barthes, Adorno, Lyotard, Stuart Hall and Gayatri Spivak. The book encompasses a range of topics, from sport to postmodernism, from museums to supermarkets, from gay writing to rock and roll. It covers important cultural studies method and theory.

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