The Cultural Studies Reader

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	• The Cultural Studies Reader: Second Edition Simon During Routledge, 1999 - 610 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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missed opportunity

I am an average reader with a background in english and physical therapy, recently i have been reading a lot on popular culture and tried to reader this reader but i was put off, to the extent that cultural studies includes sociology, demographics, urban studies, and other social science disciplines, this is a disappointing book which seems to assemble the big names in cultural studies, at least that's what the editor makes sure we know in the introduction, but he passes on the chance to include many of the up and coming writers on the subjects that could make cultural studies more atractive to people who are not insiders. The book includes Janice Radway who wrote a lot about women's popular fiction, on romance, and made a point that romance is not the bogeyman (bogeywoman?) of culture critics, but it is too bad the new edition book did not include one of my favorite books about popular culture, or i should popular fiction, and about the rise of the nobrow culture which is something i could not find even a single reference to in this whole reader. The book is called From lowbrow to Nobrow, and I did an amazon search and there are only two books about nobrow, which shows how new this field is and how little has been written about it. Oh and by the way the absence of Ray B Browne also makes this reader wonder about the ideology of this whole book (ideology seems to be the big theme of this whole book, but there is very little data to back it up). So three stars only, because some essays are very good and accessible but others are so abstract that they are almost unreadable.

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The Cultural Studies Reader

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The first edition of The Cultural Studies Reader established itself as the leader in the field, providing the ideal introduction to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers a wider selection of essays covering every major cultural studies method and theory, and takes account of recent changes in the field. There are added articles on new areas such as technology and science, globalization, postcolonialism and cultural policy, making The Cultural Studies Reader essential reading for anyone wanting to know how cultural studies developed, where it is now, and its future directions.

Contributors: Ackbar Abbas, Theodor Adorno, Arjun Appadurai, Roland Barthes, Tony Bennett, Lauren Berlant, Homi K. Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Rey Chow, James Clifford, Michel de Certeau, Teresa de Lauretis, Richard Dyer, David Forgacs, Michel Foucault, Nancy Fraser, Nicholas Garnham, Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway, Dick Hebdige, bell hooks, Max Horkheimer, Eric Lott, Jean Francois Lyotard, Angela McRobbie, Meaghan Morris, Hamid Naficy, Janice Radway, Andrew Ross, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Edward Soja, Gayatri Spivak, Peter Stallybrass, Carolyn Steedman, Will Straw, Michael Warner, Cornel West, Allon White, Raymond Williams.

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