University of Calicut
M.A. English Literatue
ENG3E05 Introduction to Cultural Studies
Syllabus
Course Description
This course provides a general introduction to cultural studies, emphasizing its history, theoretical approaches and (inter)disciplinary attributes. Along with an overview of the major theoretical aspects of the domain, the course provides an initiation into the methods and strategies for analyzing how culture is produced, where it is located, how it acts on individuals and societies, and how it engenders consensus/resistance.
Section A: Early Ruminations
Barthes, Roland (1957) “Mythologies,” extract in Nilanjana Gupta.ed. Clutural Studies (Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2004)
Williams, Raymond, (1958) “Culture is Ordinary” from The Everyday Life Reader. Ed. Ben Highmore (Routledge, 2002)
Walter Benjamin (1968) “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in
Hannah Arendt (ed) Illuminations (New York: Schocken Books)
Section B: Theory
Hall, Stuart. (1980). “‘Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms'”. Media, Culture and Society 2: 57 72.
Eric Hobsbawm (1983)”Inventing Traditions,” The Invention of Traditions. Eds. Eric Hobsbawm & Terence Ranger (Cambridge University Press)
Ella Shohat “From Eurocentrism to Polycentrism,” Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, London & New York: Routledge, 1995
Section C: Theory & Praxis
Chakravorty, Gayatri Spivak “Politics of Translation” in Outside in the Teaching Machine (Newyork: Routledge, 1993) 179-200
Stuart Hall (1980) “Encoding/Decoding” extract in Nilanjana Gupta .ed. Clutural Studies I (Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2004)
Bourdieu, Pierre (1982) “The Uses of the People,” In Other Words: Essays Towards a
Reflexive Sociology (Stanford University Press, 1990)
Section D: Theory & Praxis
Rubin,Gayle “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. Ed. Carole S. Vance. London: Pandora. 1992. 267-293.
Connell, R W “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept,” in Gender & Society, Vol. 19, No. 6, December 2005. P.829-859
Kluge, Alexander, ”On Film and the Public Sphere,” New German Critique,No. 24/25, Autumn, 1981 – Winter 1981. (pp. 206-220)
Ebooks
Author(s): Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Year: 1972
Author(s): Graham Allen
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2003
Roland Barthes (Or the profession of cultural studies)
Author(s): Martin McQuillan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2011
Ebooks Cultural Studies
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- The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies
Author(s): Dr Chris Barker
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, Year: 2004
(6 MB) - The Practice of Cultural Studies
Author(s): Dr Richard Johnson, Prof Deborah Chambers, Dr Parvati Raghuram, Estella Tincknell
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, Year: 2004
(1MB) - Culture and Society, 1780-1950
Author(s): Raymond Williams
Publisher: Doubleday, Year: 1960
(8MB) - Culture and Society: An Introduction to Cultural Studies
Author(s): David Oswell
Year: 2006
(1MB) - The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion
Author(s): Jennifer Craik
Year: 1994
(8MB) - The Uses of Cultural Studies: A Textbook
Author(s): Angela McRobbie
Year: 2005
(1MB) - Introducing Cultural Studies: Learning through Practice
Author(s): Dr David Walton
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, Year: 2007
(5MB) - Introducing Cultural StudiesAuthor(s): Brian Longhurst, Greg Smith, Gaynor Bagnall, Garry Crawford, Miles Ogborn, Elaine Baldwin, Scott McCracken
Publisher: Pearson, Year: 2008
(27MB) - Digital Futures for Cultural and Media StudiesAuthor(s): John Hartley(auth.)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2012
(2MB) - The Renewal of Cultural StudiesAuthor(s): Paul Smith
Publisher: Temple University Press, Year: 2011
(1MB) - Why Cultural StudiesAuthor(s): Gilbert B. Rodman
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2014
(1MB) - Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies
Author(s): Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Tutun Mukherjee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd., Year: 2013
(3MB) - Modernist Cultural Studies
Author(s): Catherine Driscoll
Publisher: University Press of Florida, Year: 2010
(2MB) - A Short History of Cultural Studies
Author(s): John Hartley
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, Year: 2003
(1MB) - The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies
Author(s): Michael Bérubé
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2004
(1MB) - Making Sense of Cultural Studies
Author(s): Dr Chris Barker
Series: Theory, Culture & Society
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, Year: 2002
(1MB) - Interrogating Cultural Studies: Theory Politics and Practice
Author(s): Paul Bowman
Year: 2003
(1MB) - Cultural Studies: A Practical Introduction
Author(s): Michael Ryan
Year: 2010
(1MB) - Re-Imaging Cultural Studies: The Promise of Cultural Materialism
Author(s): Andrew J Milner
Year: 2002
(1MB) - The Cultural Studies Reader
Author(s): Simon During
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1999
(4MB) - A Companion to Cultural Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies)
Author(s): Toby Miller
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2001
(2MB) - New Cultural StudiesAuthor(s): Gary Hall, Clare Birchall
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, Year: 2006
(1MB) - Literary into Cultural StudiesAuthor(s): Antony Easthope
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1991 - Food and Cultural Studies
Author(s): Bob Ashley
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2004
(2MB) - How to do Media and Cultural Studies
Author(s): Jane Stokes
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, Year: 2003
(1MB) - Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction
Author(s): Simon During
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2005
(1 MB)
Barthes ideology, culture, subjectivity
Author(s): MICHAEL MORIARTY
Source: Paragraph, Vol. 11, No. 3 (NOVEMBER 1988), pp. 185-209
Published by: Edinburgh University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43151672
Raymond Williams Culture is Ordinary Essay pdf
Author(s): Ben Highmore
Year: 2001
Author(s): Fred Inglis
Year: 1998
Raymond Williams: Making Connections
Author(s): John Eldridge
Year: 1994
Cultural Studies and the Politics of the Everyday
Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America by Patrick Brantlinger; Everyday
Life in the Modern World by Henri Lefebvre; Philip Wander
Review by: Laurie Langbauer
Diacritics, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 47-65
Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/465237 .
Culture and Society An Introduction to Raymond Williams
Author(s): R. Shashidhar
Source: Social Scientist, Vol. 25, No. 5/6 (May – Jun., 1997), pp. 33-53
Published by: Social Scientist
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3517827
The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Author(s): David S. Ferris
Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2008
Author(s): Esther Leslie
Series: Reaktion Books – Critical Lives
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Year: 2008
Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought
Author(s): Uwe Steiner
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, Year: 2010
Section B: Theory
Hall, Stuart. (1980). “‘Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms'”. Media, Culture and Society 2: 57 72.
Eric Hobsbawm (1983)” Inventing Traditions,” The Invention of Traditions. Eds. Eric Hobsbawm & Terence Ranger (Cambridge University Press)
Ella Shohat “From Eurocentrism to Polycentrism,” Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, London & New York: Routledge, 1995
Author(s): James Procter
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2004
Author(s): Helen Davis
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, Year: 2004
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
Author(s): Richard J. Evans
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, Year: 2019
Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media
Author(s): Ella Shohat, Robert Stam
Series: Sightlines
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2014
Unthinking Eurocentrism Multiculturalism and the Media Review
Review by: Bill Nichols
Film Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Spring, 1996), pp. 59-61
Published by: University of California Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1213478
Section C: Theory & Praxis
Chakravorty, Gayatri Spivak “Politics of Translation” in Outside in the Teaching Machine (New York: Routledge, 1993) 179-200
Stuart Hall (1980) “Encoding/Decoding” extract in Nilanjana Gupta .ed. Clutural Studies I (Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2004)
Bourdieu, Pierre (1982) “The Uses of the People,” In Other Words: Essays Towards a
Reflexive Sociology (Stanford University Press, 1990)
The Politics of Translation Essay pdf
The Politics of Translation Essay Analysis
Stuart Hall Encoding Decoding Essay
Encoding Decoding Essay Analysis
A Critical Review of Stuart Hall’s Encoding and Decoding
In Other Words: Essays Toward a Reflexive Sociology
Author(s): Pierre Bourdieu
Year: 1990
Pierre Bourdieu (Key Sociologists)
Author(s): Richard Jenkins
Series: Key Sociologists
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1992
Author(s): Michael Grenfell (ed.)
Publisher: Acumen Publishing, Year: 2008
Section D: Theory & Praxis
Rubin,Gayle “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. Ed. Carole S. Vance. London: Pandora. 1992. 267-293.
Connell, R W “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept,” in Gender & Society, Vol. 19, No. 6, December 2005. P.829-859
Kluge, Alexander, ”On Film and the Public Sphere,” New German Critique,No. 24/25, Autumn, 1981 – Winter 1981. (pp. 206-220)
Thinking Sex Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality Essay pdf
Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
Author(s): Gayle S. Rubin
Publisher: Duke University Press Books, Year: 2011
Hegemonic Masculinity Rethinking the Concept Essay pdf
On Film and the Public Sphere Essay pdf
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