Summary
Contents
Subject index
This is the first volume to capture the essence of the burgeoning field of cultural studies in a concise and accessible manner. Other books have explored the British and North American traditions, but this is the first guide to the ideas, purposes and controversies that have shaped the subject. The author sheds new light on neglected pioneers and a clear route map through the terrain. He provides lively critical narratives on a dazzling array of key figures including, Arnold, Barrell, Bennett, Carey, Fiske, Foucault, Grossberg, Hall, Hawkes, hooks, Hoggart, Leadbeater, Lissistzky, Malevich, Marx, McLuhan, McRobbie, D Miller, T Miller, Morris, Quiller-Couch, Ross, Shaw, Urry, Williams, Wilson, Wolfe and Woolf. Hartley also examines a host of central themes in the subject including literary and political writing, publishing, civic humanism, political economy and Marxism, sociology, feminism, anthropology and the pedagogy of cultural studies.
Waiting for the Kettle to Boil: Culture and Consciousness (Destination Celebration)
Waiting for the Kettle to Boil: Culture and Consciousness (Destination Celebration)
Cultural studies and political economy
Cultural studies was the study of the nexus linking consciousness and economy. It inherited this persistent preoccupation from Marxism, although it was always perhaps somewhat lopsided in its treatment of the two elements linked by that nexus. While devoted to the proposition that consciousness and economic forces were linked, cultural studies was evidently more comfortable with consciousness as a theoretical construct and as an object of study than it was with economics. Indeed, writing on consciousness, subjectivity, identity and personal experience became the speciality of early cultural studies. For its rather uneven attention to the economy it was (and continued ...
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