Full Description
"Reading Into Cultural Studies" revisits a selection of key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and as a project. These texts address questions of power, ideology and the possibilities and limits of resistance. Each of the eleven essays in the collection renews an early study in one area of cultural investigation, bringing such seminal texts as "Subculture" by Dick Hebdige, "Loving With a Vengeance" by Tania Modleski and "Bond and Beyond" by Tony Bennett back to the centre of attention, However the essays are not purely celebratory. Each study is critically examined in a number of ways - for its research strategy, its implicit theories of power and ideology, for the empirical evidence it draws on and its conceptual framework. Together, the essays provide an introduction to some of the central debates and issues in cultural studies.
Contents
Introduction: What's in a text? 1 Ien Ang, Watching Dallas 2 Peter Bailey, Leisure and Class in Victorian England 3 Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott, Bond and Beyond 4 Glasgow University Media Group, The Bad News Books 5 Stuart Hall, Policing the Crisis 6 Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style 7 Tania Modleski, Loving with a Vengeance 8 David Morley, The Nationwide Studies 9 Janice Radway, Reading the Romance 10 Judith Williamson, Decoding Advertisements 11 Paul Willis, Learning to Labour
