The Uses of Cultural Studies

This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of cultural studies through a critical engagement with the work of six foundational theorists: Hall, Bhabha, Butler, Gilroy, Bourdieu and Jameson. By looking at the key themes and central dynamics of their writings, McRobbie introduces their work and their contribution.

Informationen zum Autor Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, London, and her recent books include: British Fashion Design (Routledge, 1998), In the Culture Society , (Routledge, 1999), and Feminism and Youth Culture: Second Edition (Palgrave, 2000) Klappentext This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of cultural studies through a critical engagement with the work of six foundational theorists: Hall, Bhabha, Butler, Gilroy, Bourdieu and Jameson. By looking at the key themes and central dynamics of their writings, McRobbie introduces their work and their contribution. Zusammenfassung This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of cultural studies through a critical engagement with the work of six foundational theorists: Hall! Bhabha! Butler! Gilroy! Bourdieu and Jameson. By looking at the key themes and central dynamics of their writings! McRobbie introduces their work and their contribution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Stuart Hall and the Inventiveness of Cultural Studies Black and Not Black Gilroy s Critique of Racialised Modernity No Woman, No Cry? Judith Butler and the Politics of Post-Feminist Cultural Studies Look Back in Anger Homi Bhabhäs Resistant Subject of Colonial Agency Needs and Norms Bourdieu and Cultural Studies Jameson s Postmodernity The Politics of Cultural Capitalism

Autorentext
Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, London, and her recent books include: British Fashion Design (Routledge, 1998), In the Culture Society, (Routledge, 1999), and Feminism and Youth Culture: Second Edition (Palgrave, 2000)

Inhalt

Stuart Hall and the Inventiveness of Cultural Studies
Black and Not Black
Gilroy s Critique of Racialised Modernity
No Woman, No Cry?
Judith Butler and the Politics of Post-Feminist Cultural Studies
Look Back in Anger
Homi Bhabhäs Resistant Subject of Colonial Agency
Needs and Norms
Bourdieu and Cultural Studies
Jameson s Postmodernity
The Politics of Cultural Capitalism