This major text offers a critical reappraisal of the contemporary practice of cultural studies. It focuses in particular on the contribution of cultural studies to the understanding of media, communications and popular cultures in contemporary societies. The contributors, an outstanding group of internationally acclaimed scholars, examine topics such as: the different strands of cultural studies and how they are developed; whether cultural studies is a coherent discipline; tensions and debates within cultural studies; alternative or related approaches to contemporary media and society; and the movement by cultural studies revisionists towards more empirical and sociological modes of analysis.
Table of Content
Cultural Studies and Changing Times – Marjorie Ferguson and Peter Golding
An Introduction
PART ONE: QUESTIONS AND CRITIQUE
Reflections on the Project of (American) Cultural Studies – James W Carey
The Anti-Political Populism of Cultural Studies – Todd Gitlin
Policy Help Wanted – Denis Mc Quail
Willing and Able Media Culturalists Please Apply
Political Economy and the Practice of Cultural Studies – Nicholas Garnham
Dominance and Ideology in Culture and Cultural Studies – Sari Thomas
Base Notes – Graham Murdock
The Conditions of Cultural Practice
Overcoming the Divide – Douglas Kellner
Cultural Studies and Political Economy
PART TWO: ANSWERS AND ALTERNATIVES
Theoretical Orthodoxies – David Morley
Textualism, Constructivism and the ′New Ethnography′ in Cultural Studies
Cultural Populism Revisited – Jim Mc Guigan
Imagining the Audience – Joli Jensen and John J Pauly
Losses and Gains in Cultural Studies
The E′s and the Anti-E′s – Angela Mc Robbie
New Questions for Feminism and Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies, Communication and Change – John D H Downing
Eastern Europe to the Urals
From Codes to Utterances – Michael Billig
Cultural Studies, Discourse and Psychology
About the author
Peter Golding is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, UK. Until July 2015 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University, and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Loughborough University, where he was Head of Social Sciences from 1991-2006. He is Hon. President of the Media Research Network of the European Sociological Association, editor of the European Journal of Communication, and Hon. Sec. of the subject association for the field in the UK (Me CCSA). He chaired the Research Assessment Exercise for the field in the UK in 2008 and 2014. He has published widely on media sociology, the political economy of the media, and on communications and social policy.
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