Cultural Studies: The Basics / Edition 2

by Jeff Lewis

Overview

This fully revised edition of the best selling introduction to cultural studies offers students an authoritative, comprehensive guide to Cultural Studies. Clearly written and accessibly organized the book provides a major resource for lecturers and students. Each chapter has been extensively revised and new material covers globalization, the post 9/11 world and the new language wars. The emphasis upon demonstrating the philosophical and sociological roots of Cultural Studies has been retained along with boxed entries on key concepts and issues. Particular attention is paid to demonstrating how Cultural Studies clarifies issues in Media and Communication Studies. There are chapters on the global mediasphere and new media cultures.

This is a tried and tested book which has been widely used wherever Cultural Studies is taught. The new edition has exploited and developed the strengths of the first edition and added to them with relevant up-dates and new material. It is an indispensable undergraduate text and one that will appeal to postgraduates and lecturers seeking a 'refresher' which they can dip into.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412922302
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/14/2008
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jeff Lewis is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, and Senior Research Fellow at the Globalism Institute, both at RMIT University, Melbourne.

He is also the author of Language Wars (Pluto Books, 2005) and has had articles published in Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of the Humanities and International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: FORMING CULTURE/INFORMING CULTURAL THEORY
Contemporary Culture, Cultural Studies and the Global Mediasphere
Social Theory and the Foundations of Cultural Studies
Marxism and the Formation of Cultural Ideology
From British Cultural Studies to International Cultural Studies
Language and Culture
From Structuralism to Poststructuralism
PART TWO: CULTURAL LOCATIONS
Feminism
From Femininity to Fragmentation
Postmodernism and Beyond
Popular Consumption and Youth Culture
The Body
Globalization and Global Spaces
Local Transformations
New Media Cultures
Global Terror and the New Language Wars