Authors: Graeme Turner
ISBN-13: 9780415252287, ISBN-10: 0415252288
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: 3rd Edition
British Cultural Studies is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Graeme Turner offers an accessible overview of the central themes that have informed British cultural studies: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse. Beginning with a history of cultural studies, Turner discusses the work of such pioneers as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P.Thompson, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. He then explores the central theorists and categories of British cultural studies: texts and contexts; audience; everyday life; ideology; politics, gender and race. The third edition of this successful text has been fully revised and updated to include:
*Applying the principles of cultural studies and how to read a text
*An overview of recent ethnographic studies
*A discussion of anthropological theories of consumption
*Questions of identity and new ethnicities
*How to do cultural studies, and an evaluation of recent research methodologies
*A fully updated and comprehensive bibliography
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The idea of cultural studies | 9 |
Language and culture | 10 | |
Semiotics and signification | 13 | |
Marxism and ideology | 17 | |
Individualism and subjectivity | 20 | |
Texts, contexts and discourses | 22 | |
Applying the principles | 26 | |
2 | The British tradition: a short history | 33 |
Hoggart and The Uses of Literacy | 38 | |
Raymond Williams | 41 | |
E. P. Thompson and culturalism | 55 | |
Stuart Hall | 58 | |
The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies | 62 | |
Other 'centres' | 65 | |
3 | Texts and contexts | 71 |
Encoding/decoding | 72 | |
The establishment of textual analysis | 77 | |
Dethroning the text | 89 | |
Polysemy, ambiguity and reading texts | 95 | |
Textual events | 106 | |
4 | Audiences | 109 |
Morley and the Nationwide audience | 109 | |
Watching with the audience: Dorothy Hobson and Crossroads | 113 | |
Widening the frame: TV in the home | 119 | |
Text and audience: Buckingham's East Enders | 124 | |
Media audiences and ethnography | 130 | |
The audience as fiction | 134 | |
From reception to consumption | 138 | |
5 | Ethnographies, histories and sociologies | 143 |
Ethnography | 143 | |
Historians and cultural studies | 152 | |
Sociology, cultural studies and media institutions | 159 | |
6 | Ideology | 166 |
The return of the repressed | 168 | |
The turn to Gramsci | 177 | |
The retreat from ideology: resistance, pleasure and the new revisionism | 181 | |
Postmodernism | 189 | |
7 | Politics | 196 |
Politics, class and cultural studies | 196 | |
Women take issue | 202 | |
There ain't no black ... | 207 | |
Identity | 212 | |
New ethnicities | 215 | |
From consumer to citizen | 219 | |
8 | Conclusion | 225 |
'Doing' cultural studies | 225 | |
The circuit of culture | 228 | |
Conclusion | 230 | |
Notes | 232 | |
Bibliography | 236 | |
About the author | 252 | |
Index | 253 |