British Cultural Studies: An Introduction: No 7 (Media & Popular Culture)

by Graeme Turner (Author)

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  1992

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  The development of the British tradition of cultural studies is perhaps the most significant event in contemporary humanities and social sciences. In British Cultural Studies: An Introduction, Graeme Turner provides the first introductory-level survey of this new field of work. Features: Provides an overview of the key concepts and central themes that have informed British cultural studies: language, semiotics, Marxism, individualism, and discourse theory. Presents a brief history of the development of the British tradition: Hoggart, Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, and Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Analyses central categories of cultural studies: the notion of the text, audiences, everyday life, and the understanding of ideology.

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  1996

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  The new edition of this highly successful text provides a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of Cultural Studies. The British school has been a major influence in the humanities and social sciences, radically redefining the study of popular culture, the media and everyday life. Graeme Turner offers an accessible overview to the cental themes that have informed British cultural studies; language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism and subjectivity and discourse. In the first part of the book Turner presents a history of British cultural studies focusing on the work of such pioneers as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. In the second section he focuses on the central categories of cultural studies; text and textuality, audiences, everyday life and the concept of ideology. The second edition is fully revised to include new issues in cultural studies and to update key debates and references. New sections include: * The influence of postmodernism * The politics of pleasure identified with the 'New Revisionism' * Foucault and discourse * The politics of cultural studies * Gender and Race in the history of British Cultural Studies * A fully updated and comprehensive bibliography