ISBN:
9783837618969
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (180 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2014
Series Statement:
Cultural Studies und Popkultur
Parallel Title:
Print version Active Audience : A New Materialistic Interpretation of a Key Concept of Cultural Studies
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
David Morley
;
Culture
;
Cultural Theory
;
Media
;
Everyday Life
;
Media Aesthetics
;
Discourse
;
Stuart Hall
;
Media Theory
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Review quote: Besprochen in: GMK-Newsletter, 2 (2013)
Abstract:
Long description: Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates itself to the historical and theoretical examination of British cultural studies´ engagement with the »active audience theory« of the Birmingham School and its legacies. However, this book is no mere reconstruction of active audience theory as Huimin Jin develops new theoretical insights initially through a critical review of Stuart Hall´s classical model of »encoding/decoding« and close readings of David Morley´s groundbreaking ethnographic audience studies. Questioning the discourse model of the active audience proposed by Hall and Morley, Jin elaborates a new materialistic concept of audiences for the twenty-first century.; Biographical note: Huimin Jin (PhD) is 211 Chair Professor of Cultural Theory & Aesthetics at Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, and Professor of Literary Theory at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China. His publications, among others, include »Post-Confucian Turn« (2008), »Consequences of New Media: A Critical Theory Concerning the End of Literature« (2005), »Postmodernity and Dialectical Hermeneutics« (2002), »Beyond the Will: A Study of Arthur Schopenhauer´s Philosophy and Aesthetics« (1999 & 2007), and »Anti-Metaphysics and Contemporary Aesthetics« (1997). He is Editor of the journal »Differences« (Kaifeng: Henan University Press, 2002).
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover Active Audience; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. The Audience as Discursive Subject; Chapter Two. Struggling out of the Iron House of Discourse; Chapter Three. Towards a New Materialistic Conception of Audiences; Coda: Chinese Examples; Appendix 1. Towards Global. Dialogism Transcending 'Cultural Imperialism' and Its Critics; 1. Globalization as a New Philosophy; 2. The 'Globality' Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization; 3. The 'Postmodernity' Cultural Studies Doesn't Acknowledge 'Cultural Imperialism'
Description / Table of Contents:
4. Where There Is the 'Modernity' Cultural Studies, There Is 'Cultural Imperialism'Conclusion: Towards Global Dialogism; Notes; References; Appendix 2. British Cultural Studies, Active Audiences and the Status of Cultural Theory. An Interview with Professor David Morley; References; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Index
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