Doing cultural theory

A textbook-toolkit that teaches students the basics of cultural theory by unpacking its complexities with real-life examples and student focused pedagogy. Goes beyond showing how others have analysed and interpreted the world to demonstrate to students how to do cultural theory themselves

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walton, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Sage Publications , c2012
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245 1 0 |a Doing cultural theory   |c David Walton 
260 |a London :   |b Sage Publications ,   |c c2012 
300 |a xvi, 334 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-328) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Cultural studies: a brief contextual history -- 2. Structuralism and the linguistic turn: Ferdinand De Saussure -- 3. Semiotics: Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes and Stuart Hall -- 4. Ideology: Marxism and Louis Althusser -- 5. Post-structuralism: Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida -- 6. Doing deconstruction: techniques for practice -- 7. Psychoanalysis: Jacques Lacan -- 8. Applying Lacan: techniques for feminist and other forms of cultural analysis -- 9. Discourse and power: Michel Foucault -- 10. Gender and Sexuality: Judith Butler -- 11. The postmodern condition: Daniel Bell, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jurgen Habermas -- 12. Identity and consumption: Jean Baudrillard -- 13. Postmodernism unplugged: Fredric Jameson -- 14. Practising cultural studies: hegemony and cognitive mapping -- 15. Where to go from here: cognitive mapping and the critical project of cultural studies 
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650 0 |a Popular culture   |x Study and teaching 
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