Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies

by Mark Gibson

Book Overview

Power has long been a central preoccupation of social and cultural analysis. Culture and Power focuses on power to shape a history of Cultural Studies. A critical analysis of the nature and purpose of Cultural Studies, the book assesses the development of the discipline from the work of Michel Foucault in post-war France and the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1970s to the expansion of the field in the United States and present-day concerns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845201175
• ISBN13: 9781845201173
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"