Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how … See more

In the US, prior to the emergence of British Cultural Studies, several versions of cultural analysis had emerged largely from pragmatic and liberal-pluralist philosophical traditions. However, in the late 1970s and 1980s, when British Cultural Studies began to spread … See more

Cultural studies has evolved through the confluence of various disciplines—anthropology, media studies, communication studies See more

Hall and others have identified some core originating texts, or the original "curricula," of the field of cultural studies:
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Sardar's characteristics
In his 1994 book, Introducing Cultural Studies, orientalist scholar Ziauddin Sardar lists the following … See more

There are numerous published accounts of the history of cultural studies.
Dennis Dworkin writes that "a critical moment" in the beginning of cultural studies as a field was when Richard Hoggart used the term in 1964 in founding the See more

Marxism has been an important influence upon cultural studies. Those associated with CCCS initially engaged deeply with the structuralism of Louis Althusser, and later in the 1970s turned decisively toward Antonio Gramsci. Cultural studies has also embraced the … See more