文化研究导论

List of Key Intfuence boxesList of Defining Concept boxesPreface:A User s GuideAcknowledgementsPart i Cultural Theory 1 Culture and cultural studies 1.0 Introduction 1.1 What is cultre? 1.2 Issues and problems in the study of culture 1.3 Theorising culture 1.4 Cultural studies 2 Communication and representation 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Language communication and representation 2.2 Signs and semiotics

List of Key Intfuence boxesList of Defining Concept boxesPreface:A User s GuideAcknowledgementsPart i Cultural Theory 1 Culture and cultural studies 1.0 Introduction 1.1 What is cultre? 1.2 Issues and problems in the study of culture 1.3 Theorising culture 1.4 Cultural studies 2 Communication and representation 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Language communication and representation 2.2 Signs and semiotics 2.3 Advertising and representaion 2.4 Language represenataion power and inequality 2.5 Art and representation 2.6 Television and representation 2.7 Summary:reflection and consturciting 3 Culture power and inequality 3.0 Introductuion 3.1 Theorising about culture power and inequallity 3.2 Legitimating inequality 3.3 Culture and the production and reprodction of inequality 3.4 ConclusionPart ii Cultural studies 4 Topographies of culture:Geography power and represetation 4.0 Intrduction 4.1 Cultural geography 4.2 The power of place:locality language and culture 4.3 The country and the city 4.4 Culture and national identity 4.5 Orientalism:discourses of the East 4.6 Travelling cultures diasporic cultures and global cltures 4.7 Conclusion:separation and connectuion 5 Cultue time and history 6 Politics and culture 7 Cultured bodies 8 Subcltures:Treading resistance and social divisions 9 Visual cultureAfterwordBibliographyIndex

本书强调了文化研究的跨学科性质，由5位来自不同领域的专家共同撰写，涵盖了文化研究最主要的内容。全书分为两大部分。第一部分文化理论，阐述了文化概念的不同含义，语言、符号、广告、艺术、电视等文化载体的交流与表达功能，从多个角度分析了文化中存在的权力与平等问题。第二部分集中讨论了一些重要的文化研究领域，对文化的地理分布与历史发展、现代生活方式对文化的影响、政治与文化的联系、人体文化的内涵与表现形式、不同阶层、种族与年龄的亚文化现象、视觉文化与视觉表达进行了详细的阐述。 本书涉及多个学科、包括语言学、地理学、历史学、政治学、社会学等方面的内容，综合运用数字、图表、评论、示例等多种手段进行讲解，同时每章都提供了大量的阅读资料，为学生的进一步学习提供了方便，是一部文化研究领域不可多得的基础教材。 本书适合于文化研究专业的本科生和研究生使用。