This revised and fully updated version of John Storey's best-selling survey is an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods that have been used to study contemporary popular culture. The book also provides a map of the development of cultural studies through discussion of its most influential approaches. Organized around a series of case studies, each chapter...(展开全部)

Story's 5th edition of this market leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory through popular culture. * Extensively revised, rewritten and updated to offer better value and a wider knowledge base for the student * Improved and expanded content throughout including: New chapter on ‘Race’, racism and representation New sections on T...(展开全部)

Story's 5th edition of this market leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory through popular culture. * Extensively revised, rewritten and updated to offer better value and a wider knowledge base for the student * Improved and expanded content throughout including: New chapter on ‘Race’, racism and representation New sections on T...(展开全部)

Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide...(展开全部)

In recent years, visual culture has emerged as a growing and important interdisciplinary field of study. Visual culture regards images as central to the representation of meaning in the world. It encompasses "high" art without an assumption of its higher status. But despite the current proliferation of studies and programs in visual culture, there seems to be no consensus withi...(展开全部)

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers w...(展开全部)

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers w...(展开全部)

One of the greatest and most influential books of social psychology ever written, brilliantly instructive on the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd, its sentiments and morality, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, opinions and much more. A must-read volume not only for students of history, sociology, law and psychology, but for every politician, statesman, inv...(展开全部)

One of the greatest and most influential books of social psychology ever written, brilliantly instructive on the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd, its sentiments and morality, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, opinions and much more. A must-read volume not only for students of history, sociology, law and psychology, but for every politician, statesman, inv...(展开全部)

This new edition of a very successful "Reader" has been revised and updated with twenty-five new articles by leading thinkers addressing leading topics in the field, and provides the ideal road map of the discipline for cultural studies students. From theory and method, to science and cyberculture, "The Cultural Studies Reader" combines forty-two articles with editorial introdu...(展开全部)