Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Section I. Some foundations
1.Raymond Williams: “Culture as ordinary”
2.Roland Barthes: “The rhetoric of the image”
3.Stuart Hall: “The television discourse – encoding and decoding”
4.Richard Dyer, Terry Lovell and Jean McCrindle: “Soap opera and women”
5.Edward Said: “Orientalism”
6.Nichalas Garnham: “Concepts of culture – public policy and the cultural industries”
7.Janice Radway: “Reading reading the romance”
8.Graham Murdock: “Cultural studies at the crossroads”

Section II. Difference and identity
9.Phil Cohen: “Subcultural conflict and working-class community”
10.Erica Carter: “Alice in the consumer wonderland”
11.Paul Gilroy: “Black and White in the dance-floor”
12.Stuart Hall: “Minimal selves”
13.Bhikhu Parekh: “Between holy text and moral void”
14.Marie Gillespie: “Technology and tradition – audio-visual”
15.Kobena Merser: “Just looking for trouble – Robert Mapplethorpe and Fantasies of race”

Section III. Meaning of power.
16.Liz Curtis: “Echoes of the present – the Victorian press and Ireland”
17.Judith Williamson: “Meaning and ideology”
18.Fredric Jameson: “Postmodernism and consumer society”
19.Paul Willis: “Symbolic creativity”
20.Mike Davis: “The view from futures past”
21.Jan Nederveen Pieterse: “Fictions of Europe”
22.Doreen Massey: “A global sense of place”

Index