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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 cultural practices relate to wider systems of power associated with, or
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See moreSardar's characteristics
In his 1994 book, Introducing Cultural Studies, orientalist scholar Ziauddin Sardar lists the following five main characteristics of cultural studies:
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See moreMarxism 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 examination
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See moreHall and others have identified some core originating texts, or the original "curricula," of the field of cultural studies:
• Richard Hoggart...
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• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
• Comparative cultural studies
• Comparative literature...
See moreThere are numerous published accounts of the history of cultural studies.
Dennis Dworkin writes that "a critical moment" in the beginning...
See moreIn 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 internationally,
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See moreCultural studies has evolved through the confluence of various disciplines—anthropology, media studies, communication studies, Literary Studies, education, geography, philosophy, sociology, politics, and others.
While some have accused...
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