Contents:
1. Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory 2. Literature and Society: From Culturalism to Cultural Materialism 3. Critical Theory: From Ideology Critique to the Sociology of Culture 4. Semiology: From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism 5. The Cultural Politics of Difference 6. Postmodernism and Cultural Theory 7. Cultural Criticism and Cultural Policy

This lucid and concise introduction to cultural theory brings a much-needed sense of historical and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies. Contemporary Cultural Theory identifies six alternative paradigms in cultural studies - utilitarianism, culturalism, marxism, structuralism, feminism and postmodernism - and explores the socio-discursive contexts within which each of these have developed Each of the chapters in this third edition has been extensively revised to include entirely new material, on such topics as the new historicism, Zizek, Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Deleuze and Guattari, queer theory, Black and Latino cultural studies and posthumanism.

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