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Contemporary Cultural Theory

4 Semiology: from structuralism to post-structuralism 92
Durkheim and Saussure 93
Russian Formalism: from Shklovsky to Bakhtin 98
High structuralism 102
Post-structuralism: deconstruction and genealogy 113
Post-structuralism: Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari 121
5 The cultural politics of difference 128
Sex, gender and sexuality 129
Nationalism, multiculturalism and postcolonialism 139
Race and ethnicity in black and Latino cultural studies 152
6 Postmodernism and cultural theory 164
Postmodernism, postmodernity and ‘postwar’
late capitalism 165
Modernism, postmodernism and the popular 171
Celebrating postmodernism: Lyotard and Baudrillard 175
Postmodernism and the intelligentsia 179
Mapping postmodernism: Jameson 184
The politics of postmodernism 190
The illusions of postmodernism 198
7 Cultural criticism and cultural policy 203
Cultural studies and cultural criticism 205
Culture studies and cultural policy 210
From cultural criticism to cultural engineering 214
Cultural studies and cultural change 217
Criticism and globalisation 221

Glossary 224
Appendix: The institutionalisation of academic cultural
studies 242
Bibliography 245
Index 265

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