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
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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
Hunger by Roxane GayYou Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate  Moore
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
244 books — 86 voters
Beyond the Frame by Angela Y. DavisWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisSight Unseen by Martin A. BergerWoman's Legacy by Bettina ApthekerMexicans in California by Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Race, Women, Culture - UCSC
18 books — 1 voter

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New Age studies
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