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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Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
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Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes
The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
Mythologies
Orientalism
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Society of the Spectacle
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
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
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Culture and Imperialism
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The Culture Industry

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