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.
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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History
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Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
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Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
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Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
Mythologies
Orientalism
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
The Society of the Spectacle
Outliers: The Story of Success
Between the World and Me
The Location of Culture
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Culture and Imperialism
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
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