Rodman Why Cultural Studies?

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-94184-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Why Cultural Studies? is a rallying call for areinvigoration of the project of cultural studies that provides acritical analysis of its meteoric rise to the academic fore andmakes a convincing argument for the pressing need for a renewedinvestment in, and re-evaluation of, its core ideals.
* Rodman argues that there are valuable lessons we can learn fromcultural studies' past that have the potential to leadcultural studies to an invigorated and viable future
* Makes the claim that cultural studies isn't - andshouldn't be - solely an academic subject, but open toboth academics and non-academics alike
* Asserts that now more than ever cultural studies has aproductive role to play in promoting social justice and building abetter world
* Written by one of the leading figures in the area of culturalstudies, and the current Chair of the Association for CulturalStudies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodman, Gilbert B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xviii
1 Cultural Studies: What's the Point? 1
2 Cultural Studies: What It Is 35
3 Cultural Studies: What's Wrong 67
4 Cultural Studies: What It Was 120
5 Cultural Studies: What Next? 158
Index 199

Über Autor(innen)

Gilbert B. Rodman is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. His publications include Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend (1996), Race in Cyberspace (2000), and The Race and Media Reader (2014). He is currently the Chair of the Association for Cultural Studies, and the founder/manager of CULTSTUD-L, the longest running international cultural studies listserv in the world.