A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice.

Chapters :
PART I. THE 19TH CENTURY :
1. Matthew Arnold: Sweetness and light. ;
2. Marx / Engels: selections. ;
3. Truth, Cady Stanton, Anthony: selections. ;
4. Frederick Douglas: Hope for a nation. ;
5. Jackson Turner: The significance of the frontier in American history. ;
PART II. THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN THEORY. :
6. Walter Benjamin: from 'The work of Art in the age of mechanical reproduction' and Adorno's 'Letter to Walter Benjamin' ;
7. Gramsci: Intellectuals. ;
8. Levi-Strauss: A writing lesson. ;
9. Derrida: from 'The violence of the letter'. ;
10. Lacan: The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I. ;
11. Foucault: We 'other Victorians'. l
PART III. CULTURAL STUDIES IN BRITAIN :
12. Richard Hoggart: The 'real' world of people: illustrations from popular art - Peg's Paper. ;
13. Raymond Williams: Conclusions to 'Culture and Society'. ;
14. E.P. Thompson: Review of raymond Williams's 'The Long revolution'. ;
15. Germaine Greer: The stereotype. ;
16. Stuart Hall: Cultural Studies: two paradigms. ;
PART IV. CULTURAL STUDIES IN AMERICA :
17. Henry Nash Smith: The muth of the garden and Turner's frontier hypothesis. ;
18. McLuhan: The medium is the message. ;
19. Clifford Geertz: Thick description - toward an interpretive theory of culture. ;
20. James Clifford: On Ethnographic authority. ;
21. Mary Ellmann: Feminine stereotypes. ;
PART V. MEDIA STUDIES :
22. Richard Ohmann: Doublespeak and ideology in ads: a kit for teachers. ;
23. Jean Seaton: The media and the constitution. ;
24. Laura Mulvey: Visual Pleasure and narrative cinema. ;
25. Janice Radway: Interpretive communities and variable literacies - the functions of romance Reading. ;
26. Simon Frith: The good, the bad, and the indifferent - defending popular culture from the populists. ;
27. Grossberg Lawrence: MTV - swinging on the (postmodern) star. ;
PART VI. RACE STUDIES :
28. Paula Gunn Allen: How the West was really won. ;
29. Gloria Anzaldua: How to tame a wild tongue. ;
30. Cornell West: Minority discourse and the pitfalls of canon formation. ;
31. Paul Gilroy: Cruciality and the frog's perspective - an agenda of difficulties for the black arts movement in Britain. ;
33. Abdul JanMohammed: Worldliness-without-world, homelessness-as-home - toward a definition of the specular border intelectual. ;
34. Spivak: The politics of translation. ;
PART VII GENDER STUDIES :
35. Sherry Ortner: Is female to male as nature to culture? ;
36. Penelope Brown / Ludmilla Jordanova: Oppressive dichotomies - the nature/culture debate. ;
37. Jonathan Dollimore: Homophobia and sexual difference. ;
38. Watney: The banality of gender. ;
39. Eve Sedgwick: Across gender, across sexuality - Willa Cather and others. ;
40. Ann duCille: Dyes and dolls - multicultural Barbie and the merchandizing of difference. ;
PART VIII VOICE-OVERS: DEFINITIONS AND DEBATES :
41. Richard Johnson: What is cultural studies anyway? ;
42. Jameson: On 'cultural studies'. ;
43. Henry Giroux / Shumway / Smith / Sosnoski: The need for ciultural studies - resisting intellectuals and oppositional public spheres. ;
44. Stuart Hall: interviewed by Roger Bromley. ;
45. J. Hillis Miller: interviewed by Gita Rajan and Jessica Muns. ;