Book description

This volume introduces six major paradigms within cultural theory: utilitarianism; culturalism and cultural materialism; critical theory and the sociology of culture; structuralism and post-structuralism; difference theory; and postmodernism.

This lucid and concise introduction to cultural theory brings a much-needed sense of historical and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies. Each of the chapters in this third edition has been extensively revised to include entirely new material, on such topics as the new historicism, Zizek, Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Deleuze and Guattari, queer theory , Black and Latino cultural studies, posthumanism and the Sokal affair. There are also new chapters on 'Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory' and on 'Cultural Criticism and Cultural Policy'.

About the Author

Andrew Milner is Professor of Cultural Studies at Monash University. He is Director of the Centre and its Graduate Coordinator. He previously taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Canberra, Goldsmiths' College London, and the University of Leeds.

Jeff Browitt teaches in Spanish, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University.

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