Cultural Studies

Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its past historical precedents, conflicts, and issues. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural anthropology and ethnic studies in both objective and methodology. Researchers concentrate on how a particular medium or message relates to matters of ideology, social class, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or gender.
Cultural studies is extremely holistic, combining feminist theory, social theory, political t
...more

The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History
Orientalism
Mythologies
Outliers: The Story of Success
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
The Society of the Spectacle
Between the World and Me
The Location of Culture
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Culture and Imperialism
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History of disease
163 books — 68 voters
Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.Feminine Endings by Susan McClaryGender Failure by Ivan E. CoyoteEden Built by Eves by Bonnie J. MorrisQueering the Pitch by Philip Brett
Music, gender, sexuality (nonfiction)
178 books — 14 voters

You Can't Touch My Hair by Phoebe RobinsonRed by Jacky Colliss HarveyPlucked by Rebecca M. HerzigCountry Music Hair by Erin DuvallHair by Scott Lowe
Hair
33 books — 9 voters
Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry TurkleFeminism Confronts Technology by Judy WajcmanThe Inner History of Devices by Sherry TurkleA Year Unplugged by Sharael KolbergWho Needs Books? by Lynn Coady
Technology & Culture
43 books — 12 voters


Related Genres

Every belief, every word, every phrase, every observation, every proposition, every citation, every punctuation mark is subjected to ruthless doubt and viscious interrogation. The conventions of grammar oblige me to end most of these sentences with periods, but there are ghostly, invisible lines curling and hovering over most of these tiny dots. What I mean is that most of the periods in this book are interrogation marks in disguise. Most of these declarations are really restless questions under ...more
La Marr Jurelle Bruce

Humanity passed from a world of tolerant pagan polytheism to the black and white duality of Christianity. Something was either on the side of God, salvation, and goodness or on the side of the devil, evil and perdition. The tolerance, logic, rationality, and knowledge of natural phenomena that were an integral part of the Classical world were manipulated by the Church in favor of the supernatural, the mysterious, and faith in providence.
Luigi Boitani

More quotes...
History of Consciousness grads, alums, friends For folks who are in or studied in the History of Consciousness program at the University of Cal…more
6 members, last active 14 years ago
inside-an-airport (Decolonial artist reading group) We are reading books, essays, and materials on topics regarding contemporary art studies, post-c…more
16 members, last active 3 years ago
Prep for grad school and pure pleasure of ethnographic works and cultural theory
11 members, last active 10 years ago
#BecauseWeveRead An international radical reading club designed to challenge the way we see the world, created by…more
19 members, last active 7 years ago

Tags

Tags contributing to this page include: cultural-studies and culturalstudies