Cultural Studies

 

du Gay, Paul, et al. Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of Sony Walkman. Culture, Media and Identities series. London: Sage, 1997.

 

Hall, Stuart ed. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Culture, Media and Identities series. London: Sage, 1997.

–1. Theory, 2. French photography, 3. Museum exhibition of other cultures, 4. Spectacle of the Other, 5. Masculinity, 6. Soap opera

 

Woodward, Kathryn, ed. Identities and Difference. Culture, Media and Identities series. London: Sage, 1997.

-1. Concepts/dimensions of identity and difference, 2. Body as a site of construction of identity, 3. Case studies of some ‘body projects’, 4. Sexuality, essentialist vs. constructivist debate, 5. Motherhood, 6. diaspora

 

du Gay, Paul ed. Production of Culture/Culture of Production. Culture, Media and Identities series. London: Sage, 1997.

-1. Globalization, e.g. CNN & MTV 2.production of culture, 3. Fashion e.g. Benneton, 4. Circulating culture—cultural intermidiaries, 5. Organizational life, 6. People at work

 

Mackay, Hugh ed. Consumption and Everyday Life. Culture, Media and Identities series. London: Sage, 1997.

-1. Local consumption practices, e.g. council flat kitchens in London, soap opera, soft drinks in Trinidad, shopping in London, 2. Personal narratives,3. Music performance, 4. Place, 5. Domestic consumption of broadcasting, 6. Domestic ICTs

 

Thompson, Kenneth ed. Media and Cultural Rugulation. Culture, Media and Identities series. London: Sage, 1997.

--1. theories of regulation and of ideology—Gramsci, Althusser, Foucault, theories of coummunication and the public sphere e.g. politics of leisure, the New Right ideology of the 1980s, which promoted economic de-regulation and cultural re-regulation, the mediazation fo society

2. regulation of sexuality, 3. Cultural globalization, 4 forms of multiculturalism, 5. Conclusion