| Culture And Critique: An Introduction To The Critical Discourses Of Cultural Studies Contributor(s): Surber, Jere Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 081332047X ISBN-13: 9780813320472 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1997 Annotation: Written by philosopher Jere Surber, Culture and Critique familiarizes students With both the broad and specialized meanings of cultural studies, providing detailed explanations of theoretical terms, critical strategies, and discursive traditions upon which it is based. In its broad and more theoretical sense, cultural studies indicates a range of modern discourses which, beyond disciplines and their particular theories, employ the notion of culture in a distinctive way and specify certain critical practices as appropriate for analyzing given cultural activities, products, and institutions. In its narrower sense, cultural studies is a recently developed type of discourse, first appearing in several British universities in the 1950s, which, while eclectically drawing on certain theoretical aspects of earlier forms of critical cultural discourse, orients itself toward the analysis and practical critique of concrete contemporary cultural distinctions based on economic and political inequities. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306.071 |
| LCCN: 97029379 |
| Lexile Measure: 1640 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.94" W x 8.92" (0.87 lbs) 308 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The subject of this book is the various explicit and particular critical conceptions of and articulations about culture that have influenced our common understanding of ourselves and our societies. It provides an introduction to cultural studies in terms of economic and political power. |