Performing Culture presents a detailed and probing account of cultural studies' changing fixations with theory, method, policy, text, production, audience and the micro-politics of the everyday. John Tulloch encourages academics and students to take seriously the need to break down the separation between high and low cultural studies. Tulloch's case studies show that the performance of cultural meanings occurs in forms as diverse as The Royal Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare and Chekhov productions and our everyday work and leisure encounters. Drawing upon anthropological and dramatic studies of performance, the book emphasizes that academic research also performs cultural meaning. A central feature of the book is i

Cultural Policy

Cultural policy

First, people must have access to the information, advice, and analysis that will enable them to know what their rights are … and allow them to pursue these rights effectively. Second, they must have access to the broadest possible range of information, interpretation, and debate … and they must be able to use communications facilities in order to … propose alternative courses of action. And third, they must be able to recognise themselves and their aspirations in the range of representations offered within the central communications sectors and be able to contribute to developing those representations (Murdock and Golding, 1989: 183–4)

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