Judy Giles, Tim Middleton

Studying Culture 2e

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an ideal introduction for those who are new to the study of culture. Featuring global case studies, selections of readings, exercises, and commentary throughout, it spans the subject from issues of identity through to technological trends.

Explores key issues and theories on identities, representation, histories, places, and spaces, discussing the various interpretations of culture and cultural studies

Incorporates new work on the study of space, place, identity, gender, and cultural history, as well as new sections on cultural studies theories and methodology in each chapter

Introduces more complex issues including high and popular culture, subjectivities, consumption, and new technologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781405155922
• ISBN-10: 1405155922
• Artikelnr.: 20898427

Autorenporträt

Professor Judy Giles lectures in Cultural Studies and Literature at York St. John University. She is the author of The Parlour and the Suburb (2004) and co-editor of Writing Englishness 1900-1950 (1995). Professor Tim Middleton lectures in Literature & Creative Studies at Bath Spa University. He has published on modern and contemporary fiction, masculinity, and national identity and is co-editor of Writing Englishness, 1900-1950 (1995) and editor of Modernism: Cultural & Critical Concepts (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. What is
Culture?. Introduction. The 'Culture and Civilization' Debate. The 'Mass
Culture' Debate. Social Definitions of Culture. Culture and Power.
Conclusions. 2. Identity and Difference. Introduction. Who am I?. Social
Constructivist Approaches to Identity. 'Identity Crisis' and the Modern
World. Representing and Narrating Identity. Conclusions. 3. Representation.
Introduction. Language and Representation. Communicating Meaning.
Representation and discourse. Representation, Discourse and Resistance.
Conclusions. 4. History. Introduction. The Past 'As it Really Was'?.
Challenges to Objectivity: Post-structuralist Theories of History. The Past
and Popular Memory. History as 'Heritage'. Conclusions. 5. Location,
Location, Location: Cultural Geographies. Place and Identity: A Brief
Introduction. Mapping Realities?. Going Shopping. Case Study: Mapping Los
Angeles. Conclusions. 6. Case Study: Global Tourism. The Story of Tourism.
Tourism as Social Practice. Tourist Places. Tourism and Identities. Tourism
and Heritage. Cultural Imperialism or Cultural Globalization?. Conclusions.
7. Cultural Value: High Culture and Popular Culture. Defining Culture.
Discriminations. Versions of Literary Culture. Rereading Literature.
Rereading Texts: The Wind in the Willows (1908) and English Masculinity.
Conclusions. 8. Subjects, Bodies, Selves. Introduction. Fragmented or
Multiple Selves?. Language and Subjectivity. Discourse and the Subject.
Embodied Selves. Conclusions. 9. Consumption. Introduction. What is a
Consumer?. Buying a Newspaper. My High Street and your High Street.
Theories of Consumption. Selling Identities. Agency, Appropriation, and
Ethics. Conclusions. 10. Technology. The Place of the Personal: Ethnography
and the Practice of Cultural Studies. Twentieth-century Technology:
Cultural Studies of TV. Living with Technology. Working with the Web.
Conclusions. Conclusion. References and Further Reading. Bibliography.
Index

Rezensionen

"This is an invaluable introduction for students across the humanities and social sciences. A synthesis of carefully weighted comment, readings, images, and activities involves the reader in the pleasures, perils, and multiple meanings of that most complex word, 'culture'."
Mary Eagleton, Leeds Metropolitan University