Cultural Studies in Question

This major text draws on an outstanding group of internationlly acclaimed scholars and 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.

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.

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 McQuail

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 McGuigan Imagining the Audience - Joli Jensen and John J Pauly

Losses and Gains in Cultural Studies The E's and the Anti-E's - Angela McRobbie

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