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Record Nr.

UNINA9910677284703321

Autore

Rodman Gilbert B. <1965->

Titolo

Why cultural studies? / / Gilbert B. Rodman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4051-2798-8

1-118-94185-3

1-118-94183-7

1-118-94184-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

306.07

Soggetti

Culture - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Cultural studies: what's the point? -- Cultural studies: what it is -- Cultural studies: what's wrong -- Cultural studies: what it was -- Cultural studies: what next? -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Why Cultural Studies? is a rallying call for a reinvigoration of the project of cultural studies that provides a critical analysis of its meteoric rise to the academic fore and makes a convincing argument for the pressing need for a renewed investment in, and re-evaluation of, its core ideals. Rodman argues that there are valuable lessons we can learn from cultural studies' past that have the potential to lead cultural studies to an invigorated and viable futureMakes the claim that cultural studies isn't - and shouldn't be - solely an academic subject, but open to both academics and non-acade