During (English, The Johns Hopkins U.) asserts cultural studies supports those who gain least from social structures, celebrates and enhances cultural experiences, and aims to deal with culture as a part of everyday life rather than objectifying it. In this undergraduate text he describes the features of the discipline and how they relate to time (whether the past, present or future), space (local, regional, national and global), media and the public sphere (television, popular music, the Internet and technoculture), identity (including multiculturalism), sexuality and gender (feminism, gender, and queer culture), and the value of both low and high culture. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultural Studies, designed to provoke discussion and raise questions. Each thematic section examines and explains a key topic within Cultural Studies.
Sections include:
* the discipline
* time
* space
* media and the public sphere
* identity
* sexuality and gender
* value
