The first edition of <The Cultural Studies Reader> established itself as the leading textbook in the field, providing the ideal introduction for students to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers:
* 38 essays including 18 new articles
* an editor's preface succinctly introducing each article
* comprehensive coverage of every major cultural studies method and theory
* an updated account of recent changes in the field
* articles on new areas such as science and cyberculture, globalization, postcolonialism, public spheres and cultural policy
* a fully revised introduction and an extensive guide to further reading.
Acknowledgments x Simon During 1 INTRODUCTION 1(30) PART ONE Theory and method 31(82) Theodor Adorno Max Horkheimer 2 THE CULTURE INDUSTRY: ENLIGHTENMENT AS MASS DECEPTION 31(11) Roland Barthes 3 DOMINICI, OR THE TRIUMPH OF LITERATURE 42(4) Carolyn Steedman 4 CULTURE, CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE HISTORIANS 46(11) James Clifford 5 ON COLLECTING ART AND CULTURE 57(20) Angela McRobbie 6 THE PLACE OF WALTER BENJAMIN IN CULTURAL STUDIES 77(20) Stuart Hall 7 CULTURAL STUDIES AND ITS THEORETICAL LEGACIES 97(16) PART TWO Space and time 113(56) Edward Soja 8 HISTORY: GEOGRAPHY: MODERNITY 113(13) Michel de Certeau 9 WALKING IN THE CITY 126(8) Michel Foucault 10 SPACE, POWER AND KNOWLEDGE 134(8) Jean-Francois Lyotard 11 DEFINING THE POSTMODERN 142(4) Ackbar Abbas 12 BUILDING ON DISAPPEARANCE: HONG KONG ARCHITECTURE AND COLONIAL SPACE 146(23) PART THREE Nationalism, postcolonialism and globalization 169(64) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 13 SCATTERED SPECULATIONS ON THE QUESTION OF CULTURAL STUDIES 169(20) Homi K. Bhabha 14 THE POSTCOLONIAL AND THE POSTMODERN: THE QUESTION OF AGENCY 189(20) David Forgacs 15 NATIONAL-POPULAR: GENEALOGY OF A CONCEPT 209(11) Arjun Appadurai 16 DISJUNCTURE AND DIFFERENCE IN THE GLOBAL CULTURAL ECONOMY 220(13) PART FOUR Ethnicity and multiculturalism 233(38) bell hooks 17 A REVOLUTION OF VALUES: THE PROMISE OF MULTICULTURAL CHANGE 233(8) Eric Lott 18 RACIAL CROSS-DRESSING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN WHITENESS 241(15) Cornel West 19 THE NEW CULTURAL POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE 256(15) PART FIVE Science and cyberculture 271(36) Donna Haraway 20 A CYBORG MANIFESTO 271(21) Andrew Ross 21 THE CHALLENGE OF SCIENCE 292(15) PART SIX Sexuality and gender 307(64) Teresa de Lauretis 22 UPPING THE ANTI (SIC) IN FEMINIST THEORY 307(13) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 23 AXIOMATIC 320(20) Judith Butler 24 SUBJECTS OF SEX/GENDER/DESIRE 340(14) Lauren Berlant Michael Warner 25 SEX IN PUBLIC 354(17) PART SEVEN Carnival and utopia 371(20) Richard Dyer 26 ENTERTAINMENT AND UTOPIA 371(11) Peter Stallybrass Allon White 27 BOURGEOIS HYSTERIA AND THE CARNIVALESQUE 382(9) PART EIGHT Consumption and the market 391(36) Meaghan Morris 28 THINGS TO DO WITH SHOPPING CENTRES 391(19) Raymond Williams 29 ADVERTISING: THE MAGIC SYSTEM 410(17) PART NINE Leisure 427(52) Pierre Bourdieu 30 HOW CAN ONE BE A SPORTS FAN? 427(14) Dick Hebdige 31 THE FUNCTION OF SUBCULTURE 441(10) Will Straw 32 CHARACTERIZING ROCK MUSIC CULTURE: THE CASE OF HEAVY METAL 451(11) Rey Chow 33 LISTENING OTHERWISE, MUSIC MINIATURIZED: A DIFFERENT TYPE OF QUESTION ABOUT REVOLUTION 462(17) PART TEN Culture -- political economy and policy 479(28) Tony Bennett 34 PUTTING POLICY INTO CULTURAL STUDIES 479(13) Nicholas Garnham 35 POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CULTURAL STUDIES 492(15) PART ELEVEN Media and public spheres 507(70) Stuart Hall 36 ENCODING, DECODING 507(11) Nancy Fraser 37 RETHINKING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CRITIQUE OF ACTUALLY EXISTING DEMOCRACY 518(19) Hamid Naficy 38 THE MAKING OF EXILE CULTURES: IRANIAN TELEVISION IN LOS ANGELES 537(27) Janice A. Radway 39 THE INSTITUTIONAL MATRIX OF ROMANCE 564(13) Bibliography 577(24) Index 601