Questions

•  Outline the scope and rationale of Cultural Studies.

•  What is your understanding of culture as shown by the discipline?

•  Summarize the modules in this course and bring out the theoretical formulations therein.

References

•  Chris Barker, Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Sage, 2003.

•  Chris Barker, The Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies. Sage, 2004.

•  Imre Szeman and Timothy Kaposy, Cultural Theory: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

•  Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” in Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M Kellner, eds, Media and Cultural Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006, 41-72.

•  Richard Johnson, What is cultural studies anyway? Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1983.

•  Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms,” in Tony Bennett, et. al, eds, Culture, Ideology and Social Practice: A Reader, Open U P, 1981.

•  Tony Bennett. “Putting Policy into Cultural Studies.” in Simon During, Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, 1999, 479-491.

•  Judith Butler, Gender Trouble. Routledge, 1990.

•  Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene . 1976. OUP, 1989.

•  Stuart, Hall, “Signification, Representation, Ideology,” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 2.2 (June 1985): 91-114.