Cultural Theory An Anthology [Paperback]

•  Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays such as   Pierre Bourdieu’s “Forms of Capital” (1986), Gilles Deleuze “Postscript on Societies of Control” (1992), and Fredric Jameson’s “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979)
• Offers a radical new approach to teaching and studying cultural theory with material arranged around the central areas of inquiry in contemporary cultural study —the status and significance of culture itself, power, ideology, temporality, space and scale, and subjectivity
• Section introductions, designed to assist the student reader, provide an overview of each piece, explaining the context in which it was written and offering a brief intellectual biography of the author
• A large annotated   bibliography of primary and secondary works for each author and topic promotes further research and discussion
• Features a useful glossary of critical terms

Introduction.

Part 1 Reforming Culture.

Introduction to Part I.

1. Matthew Arnold, Sweetness and Light (1869).

2. Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption (1899).

3. Herbert Marcuse, The Affirmative Character of Culture (1937).

4. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, The Culture Industry (1944).

5. Raymond Williams, Culture Is Ordinary (1958).

6. Fredric Jameson, Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture (1979).

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