Through criticism of British cultural studies, New Historicism and cultural materialism, Easthope examines the discipline of cultural studies as it comes out of literary studies.
This book provides an indispensable basic introduction to textual analysis. McKee starts from the most basic philosophical foundations that underlie the practice and explains why texts are important and what they tell us about the world they represent. Textual Analysis guides students away from finding the `correct' interpretation of a text and explains why we can't simply ask audiences about the interpretations they make of texts.
Textual Analysis:
- points to the importance of context, genre and modality
- uses excellent examples drawn from popular culture
- provides students with a solid grounding on many of the important concepts underlying media and cultural studies
Written in an accessible and straightforward style Textual Analysis: A Beginners Guide will be essential reading for all students of media, cultural and communication studies.
Everyone eats, but rarely do we ask why or investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic.
E. N. Anderson explains the economics of food in the globalization era, food's relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity as well as offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition.
Everyone Eats feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.
What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What has happened
to culture in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture
today? Culture in the Communication Age
brings together some of the world's leading thinkers from a range of
academic disciplines to discuss what 'culture' means in the modern era.
They describe key features of cultural life in the 'communication age',
and consider the cultural implications of the rise of global
communication, mass media, information technology, and popular culture.
Individual chapters consider:
* Cultures of the mind *
Rethinking culture in a global context * Re-thinking Culture, from
'ways of life' to 'lifestyle' * Gender and Culture * Popular Culture
and Media Spectacles * Visual Culture * Star Culture * Computers, the
Internet and Virtual Cultures * Superculture in the Communication Age
