Cultural studies, once a burgeoning academic field, developed into a discipline in which just about any cultural text, object or event could be studied. The Renewal of Cultural Studies offers a panoramic view of the field, its assumptions, and its methodologies. Editor Paul Smit…
A collective manifesto for the future of cultural studies. Paul Smith and a team of contributors examine cultural studies in relation to other disciplines - history, anthropology, literature, media, and American studies.
A systematic examination of the relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory and media studies. This volume interrogates discourse theory -- as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe -- through an engagement with major approaches to critical media politics …
What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field h…
Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning with the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, Stacy Takacs explores the field…
Dictionary of Latin American cultural studies
"A reference work containing 54 entries defining and explaining generally accepted cultural studies terms as well as those specific to the study of Latin American culture"--
"Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective provides a historical and dialectical journey through some of the most salient and abiding works of art, literature, TV series and film, including the analysis of more classical forms such as the paintings of Van Gogh or wo…
This book examines the relationship between art and tourism through the study of the material culture of tourism: tourist art and souvenirs. It thoroughly examines how to categorise the material culture of tourism within the discourses of contemporary art and cultural anthropolo…
Regarding animals
by Arluke, Arnold, Sanders, Clinton R.
fromAnimals, culture, and society
Using a cultural studies approach to deal with certain classical myths and the way they inform psychoanalytic theory, historical experience, elite culture, popular culture and everyday life, this book follows the 'myth model' to show the mythic content of many elite and popular …