British Cultural Studies Book

	Introduction	1
1	The idea of cultural studies	9
	Language and culture	10
	Semiotics and signification	13
	Marxism and ideology	17
	Individualism and subjectivity	20
	Texts, contexts and discourses	22
	Applying the principles	26
2	The British tradition: a short history	33
	Hoggart and The Uses of Literacy	38
	Raymond Williams	41
	E. P. Thompson and culturalism	55
	Stuart Hall	58
	The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies	62
	Other 'centres'	65
3	Texts and contexts	71
	Encoding/decoding	72
	The establishment of textual analysis	77
	Dethroning the text	89
	Polysemy, ambiguity and reading texts	95
	Textual events	106
4	Audiences	109
	Morley and the Nationwide audience	109
	Watching with the audience: Dorothy Hobson and Crossroads	113
	Widening the frame: TV in the home	119
	Text and audience: Buckingham's East Enders	124
	Media audiences and ethnography	130
	The audience as fiction	134
	From reception to consumption	138
5	Ethnographies, histories and sociologies	143
	Ethnography	143
	Historians and cultural studies	152
	Sociology, cultural studies and media institutions	159
6	Ideology	166
	The return of the repressed	168
	The turn to Gramsci	177
	The retreat from ideology: resistance, pleasure and the new revisionism	181
	Postmodernism	189
7	Politics	196
	Politics, class and cultural studies	196
	Women take issue	202
	There ain't no black ...	207
	Identity	212
	New ethnicities	215
	From consumer to citizen	219
8	Conclusion	225
	'Doing' cultural studies	225
	The circuit of culture	228
	Conclusion	230
	Notes	232
	Bibliography	236
	About the author	252
	Index	253