British Cultural Studies

by Graeme Turner

Book Overview

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415129303
• ISBN13: 9780415129305
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Compulsory for any branch of Cultural Studies

I mark this book as a required text to my students in my Cultural Studies Course.Despite, or rather because of it's professed limitation to British Cultural Studies, Turner demonstrates a lot of sensitivity to what is and what is not British Cultural Studies, making any reader immediately aware of how other Cultural Studies traditions may differ. His extremely cogent and clear account takes the reader easily into the heart of Cultural Studies- what quarrels does British Cultural Studies have with other disciplines and what is so unique about its orientation as a discipline?

First to pick!

Turner's is a well-summarized, well-written introduction to the tradition of so-called critical cultural studies. This can draw a lot of attention from undergrads to phd-to-bes, from all across the social science and hmanities fields--such as mass media, communication, literature, aesthetics, philosophy, criticism, popular culture. If you believe that there's something missing in the US mainstream social science and humanities, this is the book you must start with.