Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Visual tour
• List of Key Influence boxes
• List of Defining Concept boxes
• List of Spotlight boxes
• List of Example boxes
• Preface: A User’s Guide
• Acknowledgements
• Publisher’s acknowledgements
• Part 1: Cultural Theory
  • 1 Culture and cultural studies
    • 1.0 Introduction
    • 1.1 What is Culture?
      • Culture with a big ‘C’
      • Culture as a ‘way of life’
      • Process and development
    • 1.2 Issues and problems in the study of Culture
      • How do people become part of a culture?
      • How does cultural studies interpret what things mean?
      • How does cultural studies understand the past?
      • Can other cultures be understood?
      • How can we understand the relationships between cultures?
      • Why are some cultures and cultural forms valued more highly than others?
      • What is the relationship between culture and power?
      • How is ‘culture as power’ negotiated and resisted?
      • How does culture shape who we are?
    • 1.3 Theorising Culture
      • Culture and social structure
      • Social structure and social conflict: class, gender and ‘race’
      • Culture in its own right and as a force for change
      • Performing culture and becoming
    • 1.4 Conclusion: What is cultural Studies?
      • Further reading
  • 2 Culture, communication and representation
    • 2.0 Introduction
    • 2.1 The organisation of Meaning
      • Spoken, written and visual texts
      • Communication and meaning
      • Structuralism and the order of meaning
      • Hermeneutics and interpretation
      • Political economy, ideology and meaning
      • Poststructuralism and the patterns of meaning
      • Postmodernism and semiotics
    • 2.2 Language, Representation, Power and Inequality
      • Language and power
      • Language and class
      • Language, race and ethnicity
      • Language and gender
    • 2.3 Mass Communication and Representation
      • The mass media and representation
      • Mass media representations of gender
    • 2.4 Audience Research and Reception Studies
      • The behavioural paradigm
      • The incorporation/resistance paradigm
      • The spectacle/performance paradigm
    • 2.5 Conclusion
      • Further reading
  • 3 Culture, power, globalisation and inequality
    • 3.0 Introduction
    • 3.1 Understanding Globalisation
      • Globalisation: cultural and economic change
      • Theorising about globalisation
      • Globalisation and inequality
    • 3.2 Theorising about Culture, Power and Inequality
      • Marx and Marxism
      • Weber, status and inequality
      • Caste societies
    • 3.3 Legitimating Inequality
      • Ideology as common sense: hegemony
      • Ideology as incorporation: the Frankfurt School
      • Habitus
    • 3.4 Culture and the production and reproduction of Inequality
      • Class
      • ‘Race’ and ethnicity
      • Gender
      • Age
      • Structural and local conceptions of power
    • 3.5 Conclusion
      • Further reading
  • 4 Consumption, collaboration and digital media
    • 4.0 Introduction
    • 4.1 Consumption
      • Defining consumption
      • Theories of consumption
      • Consumer society
      • Shopping
      • Fashion
      • Advertising
    • 4.2 The Information Society
      • New information communication technologies
      • The culture of new media and digital technologies
      • Consequences of an information society
      • Technology and everyday life
    • 4.3 Conclusion
      • Further reading
  • 5 Researching culture
    • 5.0 Introduction
    • 5.1 Content and Thematic Analysis
      • Quantitative content analysis: gangsta rap lyrics
      • Thematic analysis
    • 5.2 Semiotics as a method of Analysis
      • Semiotics of advertising
      • A semiotic analysis of a sophisticated advertisement
    • 5.3 Ethnography
    • 5.4 Some New Directions
    • 5.5 Conclusion
      • Further reading
• Part 2: Cultural Studies
  • 6 Topographies of culture: geography, meaning and power
    • 6.0 Introduction
    • 6.1 What is Cultural Geography?
    • 6.2 Placenames: Interaction, Power and Representation
    • 6.3 Landscape Representation
    • 6.4 National Identity
    • 6.5 Discourses of Orientalism
    • 6.6 Mobility, Hybridity and Heterogeneity
    • 6.7 Performing Identities
    • 6.8 Living in a material World
    • 6.9 Conclusion
      • Further reading
  • 7 Politics and culture
    • 7.0 Introduction
    • 7.1 Cultural Politics and Political Culture
      • From politics to cultural politics
      • Legitimation, representation and performance
    • 7.2 Cultures of political Power
      • The cultural politics of democracy in nineteenth-century Britain
      • Performing identities in conventional politics
      • Bureaucracy as culture
      • Performing state power
    • 7.3 Cultures of Resistance
      • Performing identities in unconventional politics
      • The limits of transgression: The Satanic Verses
    • 7.4 Conclusion
      • Further reading
  • 8 Cultured bodies
    • 8.0 Introduction
    • 8.1 The Social Construction of Corporeality
    • 8.2 Techniques of the Body
      • Mauss’s identification of body techniques
      • Young: ‘Throwing like a girl’
      • Goffman: body idiom and body gloss
    • 8.3 Culture as Control: Regulating the human Body
      • Power, discourse and the body: Foucault
      • Civilising the body: Elias
      • Eating: a disciplined or a civilised cultural practice?
      • Obesity wars
    • 8.4 Representations of Embodiment
      • Fashion
      • Gender difference and representations of femininity
      • Representations of masculinity
      • Representing sexuality
    • 8.5 The Body as medium of expression and Transgression
      • The emotional body
      • The sporting body
      • Body arts
      • Discoursing the fit body
      • Bodybuilding: comic-book masculinity and transgressive femininity?
    • 8.6 Cyborgism, fragmentation and the end of the Body?
    • 8.7 Conclusion
      • Further reading
  • 9 Subcultures, postsubcultures and fans
    • 9.0 Introduction
    • 9.1 Power, Divisions, Interpretation and Change
    • 9.2 Folk Devils, Moral Panics and Subcultures
      • Stanley Cohen: Folk Devils and Moral Panics
      • Moral panic updated
    • 9.3 Youth Subcultures in british Cultural Studies
      • Resistance Through Rituals: the general approach
      • Phil Cohen: working-class youth subcultures in East London
      • Ideology and hegemony
      • Structures, cultures and biographies
    • 9.4 Three Classic studies from the birmingham centre for contemporary cultural Studies
      • Paul Willis: Learning to Labour
      • Paul Willis: Profane Culture
      • Dick Hebdige: Subculture: The Meaning of Style
    • 9.5 Youth Subcultures and Gender
      • The teenybop culture of romance
      • Pop music, rave culture and gender
    • 9.6 Youth Subcultures and ‘Race’
      • Simon Jones’s Black Culture, White Youth: new identities in multiracial cities
    • 9.7 The birmingham centre for contemporary cultural studies and youth Subcultures: A General Critique
    • 9.8 Aspects of Subculture
      • Some key studies of more recent subcultures
    • 9.9 Rethinking Subcultures: Interactions and Networks
    • 9.10 Fans: Stereotypes, Star Trek and Opposition
      • Fans of Star Trek
      • Fans of daytime soap opera
    • 9.11 Conclusion
      • Further reading
  • 10 Visual culture
    • 10.0 Introduction
    • 10.1 Visual Culture and Visual Representation
    • 10.2 Modernity and Visual Culture: Classic Thinkers and Themes
      • Georg Simmel: metropolitan culture and visual interaction
      • Walter Benjamin: mechanical reproduction, aura and the Paris arcades
      • The figure of the flâneur
    • 10.3 Technologies of Realism: Photography and Film
      • The development of photography and film
      • The documentary tradition
      • Colin MacCabe: the classic realist text
      • Laura Mulvey: the male gaze
      • Slavoj Žižek: psychoanalysis and cinema
    • 10.4 Foucault: The Gaze and Surveillance
    • 10.5 Tourism and The Tourist Gaze
      • The tourist gaze
      • Postmodernism and post-tourism
    • 10.6 The glimpse, the gaze, the scan and the Glance
    • 10.7 Visual interaction in public Places
      • Categoric knowing: appearential and spatial orders
      • Unfocused interaction, civil inattention and public harassment
      • De Certeau: strategies, tactics and urban walking
    • 10.8 The City as Text
      • Marshall Berman: modernity, modernisation and modernism
      • Reading architecture
      • Reading cities: legibility and imageability
      • Reading landscape and power
    • 10.9 Visual Culture, Simulacra and the Digital
      • Digitalisation and the future of representation
    • 10.10 Conclusion
      • Further reading
• Bibliography
• Index

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