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Decoding Culture
Theory and Method in Cultural Studies


December 1999 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Decoding Culture offers a concise and accessible account of the development of cultural studies from the late 1950s to the 1990s. Focusing on the significant theoretical and methodological assumptions that have informed the cultural studies project, Decoding Culture:

  • Covers the key thinkers and key perspectives including: structuralism and post-structuralism, Screen theory, the Birmingham School, feminist cultural studies and audience analysis
  • Offers a timely corrective to anti-sociological approaches to cultural studies
  • Invites readers to reconsider the standard `textbook' accounts of the development of cultural studies.

Through its straightforward account of complex ideas, Decoding Culture provides a more analytical understanding of the theoretical and methodological dynamics of cultural studies than has been hitherto available. It will be welcomed by all students of cultural studies, sociology and media studies. 


 
The Story So Far
 
The Way We Are
 
Enter Structuralism
 
Situating Subjects
 
Resisting the Dominant
 
Gendered Subjects, Women's Texts
 
The Rise of the Reader

`This book represents a significant intervention that should be used on a wide range of courses concerned with the study of contemporary culture. In its intellectual honesty and clarity Tudor's book will stand as an authoritative basis for further developments in the coming years' - David Chaney, University of Durham

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