Overview

This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students in cultural and communications studies, and as a core text for courses on cultural theory and as a supplementary text for social and political theory courses. An overview of cultural theory after postmodernism which provides a user-friendly introduction for students. Theorists assess the postmodernist project, mapping out the future terrain for a critical approach to cultural theory.

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Author:   Barbara Adam ,  Stuart Allan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781857283280

ISBN 10:   1857283287
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   31 August 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 Truth, reality and cultural critique: culture, criticism and communal values - on the ethics of enquiry, Christopher Norris; realism and its discontents - on the crisis of cultural representation in ethnographic texts, Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey; reflexivity in academic culture, Simon Hopper; theorizing the body's fictions, Jane Moore; culture, subjectivity and the real, Fred Botting; Adorno, Oakeshott and the voice of poetry, Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick; representing AIDS - the textual politics of health discourse, Karen Atkinson and Rob Middlehurst; news, truth and postmodernity - unravelling the will to facticity, Stuart Allan. Part 2 Recasting cultural politics: the celebration of difference and the cultural politics of racism, Glenn Jordan; cultural studies, the university and the question of borders, Taieb Belghazi; changing the culture of cultural studies, Brian Doyle; nuclear family fall-out - postmodern family culture and the media, Cynthia Carter; true lies - the cultural study of memory, Timothy Robbins; imagining nature - reconstructions of the English countryside, Samantha Humphreys; Tyrell's owl - the limits of technological determinism in a epoch of hyperbolic discourse, Brian Winston; technological reality - cultured technology and technologized culture, Hughie Mackay; the temporal landscape of globalizing culture and the paradox of postmodern futures, Barbara Adam.

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