Cultural Studies

Theory and Methodology
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-82605-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Cultural Studies, which has emerged as one of the most seminal and intellectual discourses of our times, occupies a strategic location intersecting humanities and social sciences. This book covers the various models of cultural studies prevalent across the globe today and serves as a guide for its theory and practice. It discusses its trajectory and growth as a discipline since the 1960s and analyses various core concepts like popular culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, race, gender, ideology, and hegemony. The subject matter of this book also includes:

- Roland Barthes: Myth as Culture

- Blue cultural studies

- Agency and structure

- The Reality behind ‘Reality’ TV Shows

- James Bond: The Popular Hero

Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhat, K Sripad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is cultural studies?

2. Time and space: History and growth of cultural studies

3. Cultural studies: Domains and perspectives

4. Key concepts in cultural studies

5. How to do cultural studies

6. Post script: The Metamorphosis of Samskrithi into Culture

Works Cited

Suggested Reading List

Index

Über Autor(innen)

K Sripad Bhat is Professor of English and Dean of Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature at Goa University, India. His areas of specialization are literary and critical theory, cultural studies, and Indian modernity. He was Visiting Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2012 and was also invited by New York University under the Visiting Faculty Programme (2012) to deliver a talk on Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj.