ISBN:
1412908450
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (211 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Uses of Cultural Studies : A Textbook
DDC:
306.0711
Keywords:
Sociology Study and teaching
;
Culture Study and teaching
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
'What McRobbie manages to do so skilfully is to show how each [author], regardless of his or her particular disciplinary location, makes a significant contribution to the project of cultural studies. It should be essential reading for students studying culture' - THES. The heart of this book comprises a series of extended critical chapters on six of the foundational theorists of cultural studies - Hall, Bhabha, Butler, Gilroy, Bourdieu and Jameson. By looking at the key themes and central dynamics of these writers work, Angela McRobbie introduces their work and their contribution. There are al
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Privilege and Delight; Chapter 1 - Stuart Hall and the Inventiveness of Cultural Studies; Chapter 2 - Black and Not-Black: Gilroy's Critique of Racialised Modernity; Chapter 3 - No Woman, No Cry? Judith Butler and the Politics of Post-feminist Cultural Studies; Chapter 4 - Look Back in Anger: Homi Bhabha's Resistant Subject of Colonial Agency; Chapter 5 - 'Needs and Norms': Bourdieu and Cultural Studies; Chapter 6 - Jameson's Postmodernity: The Politics of Cultural Capitalism
Description / Table of Contents:
Further Materials I: A Mixed Bag of Misfortune? Bourdieu's ""Weight of the World""Further Materials II: Mothers and Fathers, Who Needs Them? Butler's ""Antigon's Claim...""; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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http://sk.sagepub.com/books/the-uses-of-cultural-studies
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