Cultural studies : a critical introduction /
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Author / Creator: | During, Simon, 1950- |
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Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2005. |
Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11298306 |
ISBN: | 9780203017586 0203017587 9780415246569 0415246563 9780415246576 0415246571 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-232) and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | This book is not quite the usual introduction to cultural studies an academic field thatwe can define, without messing about, as the engaged analysis of contemporarycultures. Cultural studies is engaged in three different senses. First, in the sense that it isnot neutral in relation to the exclusions, injustices and prejudices that it observes. Ittends to position itself on the side of those to whom social structures offer least, so thathere engaged means political, critical. Second, it is engaged in that it aims to enhanceand celebrate cultural experiences: to communicate enjoyment of a wide. |
Other form: | Print version: During, Simon, 1950- Cultural studies. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 0415246563 0415246571 |
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