Introducing cultural studies

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Longhurst, Brian, 1956-

ISBN:

9781405858434

Edition:

2nd ed.

Yayım Bilgisi:

London : Routledge, 2008.

Fiziksel Tanım:

xvi, 347 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Culture and cultural studies -- Culture, communication and representation -- Culture, power, globalisation and inequality -- Researching culture -- Topographies of culture: geography, meaning, and power -- Politics and culture -- The postmodernisation of everyday life: consumption and information technologies -- Cultured bodies -- Subcultures, postsubcultures, and fans -- Visual culture.

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Kültür -- Çalışma ve öğretim.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

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Longhurst, Brian, 1956-

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This completely revised second edition of Introducing Cultural Studies gives a systematic overview of the concepts, theories, debates and latest research in this field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, this text first considers cultural theory before branching out to examine different dimensions of culture in detail. This edition contains figures, diagrams, cartoons and photographs to help convey ideas and stimulate the reader, while pedagogical features such as Defining Concepts, Extract boxes and Further Reading sections help draw attention to the key topics covered.

This text will be core reading for undergraduates and postgraduates in a variety of disciplines - including Cultural Studies, Communication and Media Studies, English, Geography, Sociology, and Social Studies - looking for a clear and comprehensible introduction to the field.

Author Notes

Brian Longhurst, Greg Smith, Gaynor Bagnall, Garry Crawford and Elaine Baldwin are in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. Miles Ogborn is in the Department of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Scott McCracken is in the School of Humanities, Keele University

List of key influence boxes	p. xi
List of defining concept boxes	p. xii
Preface: a user's guide	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Part 1 Cultural Theory
1 Culture and cultural studies	p. 1
1.0 Introduction	p. 1
1.1 What is culture?	p. 2
Culture with a big 'C'	p. 2
Culture as a 'way of life'	p. 2
Process and development	p. 4
1.2 Issues and problems in the study of culture	p. 4
How do people become part of a culture?	p. 4
How does cultural studies interpret what things mean?	p. 6
How does cultural studies understand the past?	p. 6
Can other cultures be understood?	p. 8
How can we understand the relationships between cultures?	p. 9
Why are some cultures and cultural forms valued more highly than others?	p. 10
What is the relationship between culture and power?	p. 11
How is 'culture as power' negotiated and resisted?	p. 12
How does culture shape who we are?	p. 12
Summary examples	p. 13
1.3 Theorising culture	p. 17
Culture and social structure	p. 18
Social structure and social conflict: class, gender and 'race'	p. 18
Culture in its own right and as a force for change	p. 19
1.4 Conclusion	p. 22
2 Culture, communication and representation	p. 25
2.0 Introduction	p. 25
2.1 The organisation of meaning	p. 26
Spoken, written and visual texts	p. 26
Communication and meaning	p. 28
Structuralism and the order of meaning	p. 32
Hermeneutics and interpretation	p. 33
Political economy, ideology and meaning	p. 37
Poststructuralism and the patterns of meaning	p. 39
Postmodernism and semiotics	p. 41
2.2 Language, representation, power and inequality	p. 42
Language and power	p. 44
Language and class	p. 45
Language, race and ethnicity	p. 46
Language and gender	p. 48
2.3 Mass communication and representation	p. 49
The mass media and representation	p. 50
Audiences and reception	p. 54
2.4 Conclusion	p. 57
3 Culture, power, globalisation and inequality	p. 58
3.0 Introduction	p. 58
3.1 Understanding globalisation	p. 59
Globalisation: cultural and economic change	p. 59
Theorising about globalisation	p. 60
Globalisation and inequality	p. 62
3.2 Theorising about culture, power and inequality	p. 65
Marx and Marxism	p. 65
Weber, status and inequality	p. 69
Caste societies	p. 71
3.3 Legitimating inequality	p. 72
Ideology as common sense: hegemony	p. 72
Ideology as incorporation: the Frankfurt School	p. 74
Habitus	p. 76
3.4 Culture and the production and reproduction of inequality	p. 77
Class	p. 77
'Race' and ethnicity	p. 80
Gender	p. 81
Age	p. 84
Structural and local conceptions of power	p. 87
3.5 Conclusion	p. 88
4 Researching culture	p. 90
4.0 Introduction	p. 90
4.1 Content and thematic analysis	p. 91
Quantitative content analysis: gangsta rap lyrics	p. 92
Thematic analysis	p. 93
4.2 Semiotics as a method of analysis	p. 95
Semiotics of advertising	p. 98
A semiotic analysis of a sophisticated advertisement	p. 101
4.3 Ethnography	p. 102
4.4 Conclusion	p. 105
Part 2 Cultural Studies
5 Topographies of culture: geography, meaning and power	p. 107
5.0 Introduction	p. 107
5.1 What is cultural geography?	p. 109
5.2 Placenames: interaction, power and representation	p. 111
5.3 Landscape representation	p. 113
5.4 National identity	p. 117
5.5 Discourses of Orientalism	p. 120
5.6 Mobility, hybridity and heterogeneity	p. 125
5.7 Performing identities	p. 132
5.8 Living in a material world	p. 135
5.9 Conclusion	p. 139
6 Politics and culture	p. 140
6.0 Introduction	p. 140
6.1 Cultural politics and political culture	p. 141
From politics to cultural politics	p. 141
Legitimation, representation and performance	p. 146
6.2 Cultures of political power	p. 150
The cultural politics of democracy in nineteenth-century Britain	p. 150
Performing identities in conventional politics	p. 152
Bureaucracy as culture	p. 156
Performing state power	p. 163
6.3 Cultures of resistance	p. 169
Performing identities in unconventional politics	p. 169
The limits of transgression: The Satanic Verses	p. 172
6.4 Conclusion	p. 174
7 The postmodernisation of everyday life: consumption and information technologies	p. 176
7.0 Introduction	p. 176
7.1 Consumption	p. 177
Defining consumption	p. 177
Theories of consumption	p. 178
The consumer society	p. 181
7.2 The information society	p. 182
New information communication technologies	p. 183
The culture of new information communication technologies	p. 184
Consequences of an information society	p. 191
Technology and everyday life	p. 193
7.3 Conclusion	p. 197
8 Cultured bodies	p. 198
8.0 Introduction	p. 198
8.1 The social construction of corporeality	p. 199
8.2 Techniques of the body	p. 201
Mauss's identification of body techniques	p. 201
Young: 'Throwing like a girl'	p. 202
Goffman: body idiom and body gloss	p. 204
8.3 Culture as a control: the regulation and restraint of human bodies	p. 206
Power, discourse and the body: Foucault	p. 206
Civilising the body: Elias	p. 211
Eating: a disciplined or a civilised cultural practice?	p. 212
8.4 Representations of embodiment	p. 215
Fashion	p. 215
Gender difference and representations of femininity	p. 218
Representations of masculinity	p. 219
Representing sexuality	p. 221
8.5 The body as medium of expression and transgression	p. 223
The emotional body	p. 223
The sporting body	p. 224
Body arts	p. 225
Discoursing the fit body	p. 226
Bodybuilding: comic-book masculinity and transgressive femininity?	p. 229
8.6 Cyborgism, fragmentation and the end of the body?	p. 231
8.7 Conclusion	p. 234
9 Subcultures, postsubcultures and fans	p. 236
9.0 Introduction	p. 236
9.1 Power, divisions, interpretation and change	p. 237
9.2 Folk devils, moral panics and subcultures	p. 238
Stanley Cohen: Folk Devils and Moral Panics	p. 238
Moral panic updated	p. 240
9.3 Youth subcultures in British cultural studies	p. 241
Resistance through Rituals: the general approach	p. 242
Phil Cohen: working-class youth subcultures in East London	p. 243
Ideology and hegemony	p. 244
Structures, cultures and biographies	p. 246
9.4 Three classic studies from the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies	p. 247
Paul Willis: Learning to Labour	p. 247
Paul Willis: Profane Culture	p. 247
Dick Hebdige: Subculture: The Meaning of Style	p. 248
9.5 Youth subcultures and gender	p. 248
The teenybopper culture of romance	p. 250
Pop music, rave culture and gender	p. 251
9.6 Youth subcultures and race	p. 252
Simon Jones's Black Culture, White Youth: new identities in multiracial cities	p. 252
9.7 The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and youth subcultures: a general critique	p. 253
9.8 Aspects of youth culture	p. 256
Some key studies of recent subcultures	p. 258
9.9 Rethinking subcultures: interactions and networks	p. 261
9.10 Fans: stereotypes, Star Trek and opposition	p. 264
Fans of Star Trek	p. 264
Fans of daytime soap opera	p. 266
9.11 Conclusion	p. 266
10 Visual culture	p. 268
10.0 Introduction	p. 268
10.1 Visual culture and visual representation	p. 269
10.2 Modernity and visual culture: classic thinkers and themes	p. 270
Georg Simmel: metropolitan culture and visual interaction	p. 270
Walter Benjamin: mechanical reproduction, aura and the Paris arcades	p. 273
The figure of the flaneur	p. 276
10.3 Technologies of realism: photography and film	p. 277
The development of photography and film	p. 277
The documentary tradition	p. 278
Colin MacCabe: the classic realist text	p. 280
Laura Mulvey: the male gaze	p. 281
10.4 Foucault: the gaze and surveillance	p. 283
10.5 Tourism: gazing and postmodernism	p. 284
The tourist gaze	p. 284
Postmodernism and post-tourism	p. 286
10.6 The glimpse, the gaze, the scan and the glance	p. 287
10.7 Visual interaction in public places	p. 289
Categoric knowing: appearential and spatial orders	p. 289
Unfocused interaction, civil inattention and normal appearances	p. 291
10.8 The city as text	p. 293
Marshall Berman: modernity, modernisation and modernism	p. 294
Reading architecture	p. 294
Reading cities: legibility and imageability	p. 298
Reading landscape and power	p. 298
10.9 Visual culture and postmodernity	p. 298
Postmodernism and capitalism: Fredric Jameson and David Harvey	p. 299
Jean Baudrillard: simulacra and hyperreality	p. 299
Digitalisation and the future of representation	p. 301
10.10 Conclusion	p. 302
Bibliography	p. 304
Index	p. 331

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