Description
Book SynopsisAn outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and clever.
- Times Higher Education
The ideal textbook for FE and first year HE cultural studies students. Its quality and character allow the reader to feel' the enthusiasm of its author which in turn becomes infectious, instilling in the reader a genuine sense of ebullient perturbation.
- Art/Design/Media, The Higher Education Authority
An introduction to the practice of cultural studies, this book is ideal for undergraduate courses. Full of practical exercises that will get students thinking and writing about the issues they encounter, this book offers its readers the conceptual tools to practice cultural analysis for themselves. There are heuristics to help students prepare and write projects, and the book provides plenty of examples to help students develop their own ideas.
Trade Review
An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and clever
THE
Times Higher Education
What a weird and wonderful book. It is the Ronseal of Cultural Studies Literature; it does what it says on the tin... the ideal textbook for Further Education and first year Higher Education Cultural Studies Students... It is also a brilliant revision and essay writing tool for more advanced learners. It is concise, honest and straightforward in its aims and content and witty in its approach... This does not mean however that its content is ‘dumbed down′. It valiantly manages to retain all the highly academic information required for this area of study and does not shy away from using the appropriate terminology and language that Cultural Studies students must familiarise themselves with. The ‘Oversimplification Warnings’, ‘Practice Exercises’, illustrations and ‘Notes’ act as practical or cognitive revision for the body of text rather than as a ‘gutter press’ substitute... this is a highly successful book, in that it has accomplished its intentions, but it is also a motivational book. Its quality and character allow the reader to ‘feel’ the enthusiasm of its author which in turn becomes infectious, instilling in the reader a genuine sense of ebullient perturbation
Art/Design/Media
The Higher Education Authority
It does not attempt to be in any way exhaustive, as it shows a constant awareness of "what′s been left out", but, working towards "interpretive independence", it aims to provide students with sufficient notional skills to start doing their own cultural criticism… Like the best cultural studies works, Walton′s exhilarating book may leave the student wondering what cultural studies actually is, perhaps undecided about a final definition, but nonetheless confident enough to start practising it
ATLANTIS
Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies
Ideal for courses linked to the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) laid down by the Bologna process that is transforming university education in Europe, epecially as the author shows a constant awareness of teaching in terms of developing students′ critical competencies
J. Rubén Valdés Miyares
Universidad de Oviedo
Table of ContentsPART ONE: HIGH CULTURE GLADIATORS: SOME INFLUENTIAL EARLY MODELS OF CULTURAL ANALYSIS Culture and Anarchy in the UK A Dialogue with Matthew Arnold The Leavisites and T.S. Eliot Combat Mass Urban Culture Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the ′Culture Industry′ PART TWO: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF WORKING-CLASS CULTURE From a Day Out at the Seaside to the Milk Bar Richard Hoggart and Working-Class Culture E.P. Thompson and Working-Class Culture as a Site for Conflict, Consciousness and Resistance Towards a Recognizable Theory of Culture Raymond Williams PART THREE: CONSOLIDATING CULTURAL STUDIES: SUBCULTURES, THE POPULAR, IDEOLOGY AND HEGEMONY Introducing Stuart Hall The Importance and Re-evaluation of Popular Mass Culture Youth Subcultures and Resistance A Dialogue with Quadrophenia Subcultures and Widening Horizons Further Strategies for Practice How to Dominate the Masses Without Resorting to the Inquisition Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony Theory A Few Ways You Might Adapt Ideas from Louis Althusser to Cultural Studies a Dialogue with Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde PART FOUR: PROBING THE MARGINS, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN: REPRESENTATION, SUBORDINATION AND IDENTITY Crying Woolf! Thinking with Feminism Adapting Theory to Explore Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality The Case of East is East PART FIVE: HONING YOUR SKILLS, CONCLUSIONS AND ′BEGIN-ENDINGS′ Consolidating Practice, Heuristic Thinking, Creative Cri-tickle Acts and Further Research
