Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1863734996 ISBN 13: 9781863734998

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1993

Synopsis

This anthology ranges from readings of the micro-politics of everyday life and popular culture to the study of gender, race, ethnic and class identities and of the institutions that organize our sense of time, space and place. It cuts across a number of traditional disciplines.

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Review:

"The best collection on cultural studies that I have yet to see. Anyone with an interest in cultural studies, feminism, postcolonialism, or critical theory will want to read this book... The contributors demonstrate how Australian work is both similar to and different from other bodies of national cultural studies work." -- Larry Grossberg, coeditor of Cultural Studies

From the Back Cover:

Cultural studies has emerged as a major force in the analysis of cultural systems and their relation to social power. "Rather than being interested in television or architecture or pinball machines themselves - as industrial or aesthetic structures - cultural studies tends to be interested in the way such apparatuses work as points of concentration of social meaning, as 'media' (literally)", according to John Frow and Meaghan Morris. Here, two of Australia's leading cultural critics bring together work that represents a distinctive national tradition, moving between high theory and detailed readings of localized cultural practices. Ethnographic audience research, cultural policy studies, popular consumption, "bad" aboriginal art, landscape in feature films, style, form and history in TV miniseries, and the intersections of tourism with history and memory - these are among the topics addressed in a landmark volume that cuts across myriad traditional disciplines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1863734996
• ISBN 13: 9781863734998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Frow John, Morris Meaghan