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British Cultural Studies: An introduction 3rd Edition

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is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. 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:
* How to apply the principles of cultural studies and how to read a text
* An overview of recent ethnographic studies
* 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

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  1. ISBN-10
    041525227X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0415252270
  3. Edition
    3rd
  4. Publisher
    Routledge
  5. Publication date
    October 10, 2002
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
  8. Print length
    272 pages
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"'With his customary intelligence, Graeme Turner has transformed a diverse and complex field into a coherent body of knowledge that can be digested by students. This is the clearest, most comprehensive guide to the subject I know.'- Toby Miller."
"Original in both senses of the word, British Cultural Studies was the first and remains the best book of its kind. The latest edition responds to changes in both academic and activist cultural studies. Turner is alert to the needs of students, and judiciously appraises the work of many leading writers. He also raises new questions -- about citizenship and consumerism, identity and politics, quality and method -- that point the way forward for the field as a whole. John Hartley, Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies."
"The first, and still the best, introduction to British cultural studies. It is essential reading for all undergraduates in the field." - Professor John Storey, Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland.."

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 3rd edition (October 10, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 041525227X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415252270
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
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I finished my university studies 35 years ago. Being in early retirement now, I am eager to learn what happened in social sciences while I was earning my bread. Gaeme Turner’s Introduction into British Cultural Studies turned out to be a very useful overview of the developments in Cultural Studies from the late 1960s until 2005. Turner is a Professor emeritus at the University of Queensland and a leading figure in Australian Cultural Studies.
“British Cultural Studies” comprehends an overview about the major works of Cultural Studies in Britain. Turner summarizes the key works such as Richard Hoggart’s “The Uses of Literacy”, Stuart Hall’s “Encoding and Decoding in Television Discourse” and Paul Willis “Learning to Labour”. Most of the books mentioned are available on the Web.
Cultural Studies starts with a revolt against the elitism of British Literary Studies in the works of Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams. It was strongly linked with adult education. Teachers were confronted with pop music and searched for answers. Cultural Studies dealt with pop music and youth culture and the impact of the new medium television. Turner then describes the growing influence first of Western Marxism and then of Structuralism in the 1970s. He presents the debate between Culturalists (E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams) and Structuralists (Althusser). Cultural Studies has developed around the conflict between individual agency, Marxist economic determinism and Structuralist cultural determinism. The turn to the Gramscian notion of “hegemony” was a sort of compromise between individual agency and determinism.
Presenting many interesting works of Cultural Studies, Turner shows a shift of emphasis
• from high art to popular art, from an elitist definition of culture to culture as the very material of our daily lives, from literature to a broader notion of culture in the 1960s
• from individual agency to the cultural creation of “identity” (Althusser’s “Appellation”) in the 1970s
• from class and class sub-communities to gender and race in the 1980s
• From British nationalism to transnational identities and from critique of ideology to “pleasure” in the post-modernist 1990s.
Turner mentions the political aspects. Stuart Hall and other writers were strongly involved in the analysis of Right-wing Thatcherism and Blair’s “New Labour”. The representation of the political aspects of the history of Cultural Studies although stays a bit cursory.
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