This original, sharp and engaging book draws the reader into a compelling exploration of cultural studies in the twenty-first century. It offers a level-headed account of where cultural studies has come from, the methodological and theoretical dilemmas that it faces today and an agenda for its future development. In an age in which the relevance of cultural studies has been called into question, this book seeks to generate debate. Focusing upon the actual practice of cultural studies within the university today, it asks whether or not cultural studies has really managed to maintain a...
This original, sharp and engaging book draws the reader into a compelling exploration of cultural studies in the twenty-first century. It offers a lev...
is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Turner offers an accessible overview of the central themes that have informed British cultural studies: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse. Beginning with a history of cultural studies, Turner discusses the work of such pioneers as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E. P.Thompson, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. He then explores the central theorists and categories of British cultural studies: texts and contexts;...
is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Turner offers an accessible overview of the central themes tha...
This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.
With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology.
This fourth edition now includes:
new sections dealing with debates about spectacle and special effects
an extended treatment of sound and its contribution to cinema
film theory's discussion...
This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent f...
"An outstanding achievement... Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, and brilliantly explores what it is about celebrity today that should concern us all" - Sean Redmond, Deakin University
"A key touchstone for celebrity studies. Turner thoughtfully illuminates the variety of production and consumption practices through which celebrity circulates today, whilst remaining sensitive to the complexity of power relations in play. An essential read for students and scholars in the field" - Sue Holmes, University of East...
"An outstanding achievement... Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, and brilliantly explores what it is about celebrity today that shoul...
Dynamic and insightful exploration of the 'everyday' individual's willingness to turn themselves into media content. How are 'ordinary' people being integrated into current media formats?
Dynamic and insightful exploration of the 'everyday' individual's willingness to turn themselves into media content. How are 'ordinary' people being i...
A superb overview of cultural studies written by a world class authority this book explores where cultural studies has come from, the methodological and theoretical challenges it faces today and sets an agenda for its future development.
A superb overview of cultural studies written by a world class authority this book explores where cultural studies has come from, the methodological a...
Re-Inventing the Media" provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.
While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part of the transformations that have taken place in what amounts of a reinvention of the media over the last two decades.
Graeme Turner takes on the task of re-thinking how media studies approaches the whole of the contemporary media-scape by focusing on three large,...
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Re-Inventing the Media" provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-m...
Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.
While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part of the transformations that have taken place in what amounts of a reinvention of the media over the last two decades.
Graeme Turner takes on the task of re-thinking how media studies approaches the whole of the contemporary...
Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-ana...
This book, first published in 1987, sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture, and to counter the long-established, traditional criticism bewailing its lack. The authors argue that the 'knocker's' view started from an elitist viewpoint, yearning for Australia to aspire to a European culture in art, music, literature and other traditional cultural fields. They argue however that there are other definitions of culture that are more populist, more comprehensive, and which represent a vitality and dynamism which is a true reflection of the lives and...
This book, first published in 1987, sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture, and to counter the long-establi...
