British Cultural Studies : An Introduction

British Cultural Studies is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Graeme Turner offers an accessible overview to the central themes that have informed British cultural studies; language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism and subjectivity and discourse.Presenting a history of British cultural studies and focusing on the work of such pioneers as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, the second edition is fully revised to include new issues in cultural studies and to update key debates and references. New sections include:* The influence of postmodernism* The politics of pleasure identified with the 'New Revisionism'* Foucault and discourse* The politics of cultural studies* Gender and Race in the history of British Cultural Studies* A fully updated and comprehensive bibliography