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
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London :
Sage Publications ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 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