British Cultural Studies: An Introduction
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...
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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
Introduction11The idea of cultural studies9Language and culture10Semiotics and signification13Marxism and ideology17Individualism and subjectivity20Texts, contexts and discourses22Applying the principles262The British tradition: a short history33Hoggart and The Uses of Literacy38Raymond Williams41E. P. Thompson and culturalism55Stuart Hall58The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies62Other 'centres'653Texts and contexts71Encoding/decoding72The establishment of textual analysis77Dethroning the text89Polysemy, ambiguity and reading texts95Textual events1064Audiences109Morley and the Nationwide audience109Watching with the audience: Dorothy Hobson and Crossroads113Widening the frame: TV in the home119Text and audience: Buckingham's East Enders124Media audiences and ethnography130The audience as fiction134From reception to consumption1385Ethnographies, histories and sociologies143Ethnography143Historians and cultural studies152Sociology, cultural studies and media institutions1596Ideology166The return of the repressed168The turn to Gramsci177The retreat from ideology: resistance, pleasure and the new revisionism181Postmodernism1897Politics196Politics, class and cultural studies196Women take issue202There ain't no black ...207Identity212New ethnicities215From consumer to citizen2198Conclusion225'Doing' cultural studies225The circuit of culture228Conclusion230Notes232Bibliography236About the author252Index253
