The Cultural Studies Reader: Second Edition (Paperback)

by Simon During (Author) "THIS BOOK COLLECTS REPRESENTATIVE essays in cultural studies as an introduction to this increasingly popular field of study..." (more)
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Editor During ( Foucault and Literature , Routledge, 1992) highlights major issues, trends, and hypotheses critical to scholars of contemporary culture since the 1950s, when cultural studies emerged as an academic discipline. The 27 essays by Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Teresa de Lauretis, Michel Foucault, Michele Wallace, and Cornel West, among others, range from ethnicity, multiculturalism, and sexuality to theory and method. Comments and suggested readings accompany each essay, and a valuable introduction places the intellectual and political forces that have shaped cultural studies in their historical context. This volume will appeal to advanced students and scholars; recommended for libraries with in-depth collections in cultural studies and sociology.
- Charles L. Lumpkins, Bloomsburg Univ. Lib. , Pa.
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Simon Durings widely used collection The Cultural Studies Reader is an excellent assemblage of essays, containing work by many of the leading academics in the field. - John Storey, THES

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Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (July 8, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415137543
• ISBN-13: 978-0415137546
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #339,873 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars missed opportunity, February 18, 2008

By	Ginette Gibeault (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

1 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Cultural Studies Reader, January 3, 2007

By	Earlham Collegedeborah J. Follis - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

We received this in timely manner and it was in good condition