상세정보

′The book is an important read for persons who practice or study within the field. Anyone with experience or interest in the topic will come away with a deepened understanding of debates within cultural studies and with an array of nfew questions and ideas to pursue. The book would make a fine text for graduate level classes dealing with culture and media; the question/debate-orientated structure especially could provide the launching pad for a whole range of discussions, profjects, and papter topics′

The Southern Communication Journal

In this sequel to the best-selling text Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, Chris Barker turns his attention to the significance and future of the field. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of cultural studies, providing students and practitioners with an authoritative diagnosis of the subject and a balanced prognosis, and investigates the boundaries of cultural studies elucidating the main underlying themes of study.

Written with panache, and an understanding of classroom needs, Making Sense of Cultural Studies is the perfect teaching complement to Chris Barker′s earlier textbook. It is a rich resource for seminar work and undergraduate and postgraduate thesis topics, yet it can also be read as a free-standing analysis of the condition of cultural studies today.

정보제공 :

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = ⅹ
1 Investigating Problems in Cultural Studies = 1
 Introduction = 1
 The cultural studies family = 2
 Family therapy : approaching problems in cultural studies = 7
 Underlying themes = 9
2 Language, Practice and the Material = 21
 Introduction = 21
 Language and cultural studies : dilemmas and omissions = 21
 Signification and cultural materialism = 24
 Language, the material and practices that signify = 29
 From text to performances = 38
 Conclusions = 44
3 Truth, Science and Ideology = 45
 Introduction = 45
 Philosophy in search of the truth = 46
 The place of science = 50
 The mistaken character of ideology = 53
 The concept of hegemony = 57
 Political values in cultural studies = 62
 Conclusions = 64
4 Culture as a Way of Life = 66
 Introduction = 66
 Raymond Williams : culture as a whole way of life = 67
 Commodities are ordinary = 69
 The whole divided = 72
 Holism and levels of practice = 77
 Global chaos culture = 82
 Conclusions = 84
5 Subjects, Agents and the Limits of Rational Action = 86
 Introduction = 86
 The subject of cultural studies = 87
 The limits of the rational mind = 94
 Constructionism and the language of biochemistry = 102
 Conclusions = 106
6 Identity, Equality and Difference : The Politics of Gender = 108
 Introduction = 108
 Identity and difference = 109
 Gender and difference = 110
 The science of sex = 115
 Man trouble = 121
 Conclusions = 128
7 Global Culture／Media Culture = 130
 Introduction = 130
 Globalization and cultural imperialism = 130
 Globalizing the television market = 133
 Programme flows in global television = 138
 Global audiences and creative consumption = 142
 Syncretic global youth culture = 146
 Diaspora and hybrid identities = 147
 Globalization and power = 151
 Conclusions = 153
8 Transforming Capitalism = 154
 Introduction = 154
 The transformation of capitalism = 155
 The recomposition of class and culture = 159
 Class : the return of the repressed = 161
 The problem of consumer culture = 163
 Consumption, resistance and lifestyle politics = 166
 Living in the wasteland : resistance and beyond = 171
 Conclusions = 175
9 Kaleidoscopic Cultural Studies : Issues of Politics and Method = 176
 Introduction = 176
 The politics of culture and power = 177
 Cultural studies and the agents of cultural politics = 180
 Texts, institutions and the politics of method = 183
 The politics of policy = 189
 Emotional education = 193
 Conclusions = 197
10 Evolution and Emotion : New Resources for Cultural Studies = 198
 Introduction = 198
 Evolutionary biology and cultural studies = 199
 The fundamentals of evolutionary psychology = 206
 Evolution, culture and emotions = 209
 The problem of meaning = 213
 Conclusions = 220
Keywords in Cultural Studies = 221
References = 229
Index = 239