This book covers the various models of cultural studies and serves as a guide for its theory and practice. It discusses its trajectory and growth as a discipline since the 1960s and analyses various core concepts like popular culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, race, and hegemony.
Cultural Studies, which has emerged as one of the most seminal and intellectual discourses of our times, occupies a strategic location intersecting humanities and social sciences. This book covers the various models of cultural studies prevalent across the globe today and serves as a guide for its theory and practice. It discusses its trajectory and growth as a discipline since the 1960s and analyses various core concepts like popular culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, race, gender, ideology, and hegemony. The subject matter of this book also includes:
- Roland Barthes: Myth as Culture
- Blue cultural studies
- Agency and structure
- The Reality behind ‘Reality’ TV Shows
- James Bond: The Popular Hero
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1. What is cultural studies?
2. Time and space: History and growth of cultural studies
3. Cultural studies: Domains and perspectives
4. Key concepts in cultural studies
5. How to do cultural studies
6. Post script: The Metamorphosis of Samskrithi into Culture
Works Cited
Suggested Reading List
Index
K Sripad Bhat is Professor of English and Dean of Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature at Goa University, India. His areas of specialization are literary and critical theory, cultural studies, and Indian modernity. He was Visiting Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2012 and was also invited by New York University under the Visiting Faculty Programme (2012) to deliver a talk on Gandhis Hind Swaraj.
