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The selected bibliography provides an overview of important publications, authors, and concepts within the field of cultural studies.

Some of the major topics covered include media and popular culture, critical theory, cultural production, ideology, postmodernism, feminism, and postcolonialism. Key thinkers referenced include Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Edward Said, and Michel Foucault.

Theoretical approaches like Marxism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, and discourse analysis are discussed across many of the texts. Thinkers like Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes are cited frequently.

Introduction to Cultural Studies

Lecturer: PD Dr. Stefan L. Brandt

Selected Bibliography

Agger, Ben. Cultural Studies as Critical Theory. London and Washington, DC: Falmer Press,
1992.
Adorno, Theodor W. The Cultural Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. London:
Routledge, 1991.
Allen, R., ed. Channels of Discourse, Reassembled. London: Routledge, 1992.
Bal, Mieke, ed. The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation.
Stanford, Ca.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1999.
Barker Chris. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Sage Publications, 2008.
Barrett, M., Corrigan P. and Wolff, J., eds. Ideology and Cultural Production. London: Croom
Helm, 1979.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. London: Paladin, 1973.
Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2009.
Becker, Howard S. and Michal M. McCall, eds. Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies.
Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Bell, David, ed. Cybercultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. London and New
York, NY: Routledge, 2006.
bell, hooks. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992.
---. Feminist Theory from Margin to Center. Boston: South End Press, 1984.
---. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom. New York: Routledge, 2010.
---. Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston: South End Press, 1990.
Belsey, Catherine. Culture and the Real: Theorizing Cultural Criticism. London and New York,
NY: Routledge, 2005.
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1968.
Bennet, Tony, Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris, eds. New Keywords: A Revised
Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Best, Stephen and Douglas Kellner. Postmodern Theory. London: MacMillan, 1991.
Bennett, Tony and Mercer C, eds. Outside Literature. London: Routledge, 1990.
Bérubé, Michael, ed. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Bhabha, Homi K., ed. Nation and Narration. New York: Routledge, 1990.
---. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994
Birchall, Clare and Gary Hall, eds. New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1993.
---. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
---. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Bradbury, Malcolm, and Howard Temperly, eds. Introduction to American Studies. Essex:
Longman, 1989.
Brandt, Stefan L. “American Cultural ImagiNation: The New Americanists and the Bush
Revolution” (with Alexander Vazansky). American Studies / Shifting Gears. Eds. B. Christ,
C. Kloeckner, E. Schäfer-Wünsche & M. Butter. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 2010, 65-
88.
Brooker, Peter. A Concise Glossary of Cultural Theory. London: Arnold, 1999.
Burgett, Bruce and Glenn Hendler, eds. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York:
New York University Press, 2007.
Campbell, Neil, and Kean, Alasdair. American Cultural Studies: An Introduction to American
Culture. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2006.
Chaney, David. The Cultural Turn: Scene Setting Essays on Contemporary Cultural Theory.
London: Routledge, 1994.
Christians, Clifford, and Linda Steiner, eds. Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies. Urbana,
Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Christopher, K. W. Rethinking Cultural Studies: A Study of Raymond Williams and Edward Said.
Jaipur, India: Rawat Publications, 2005.
Chow, R. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Cobley, Paul, ed. Communication Theories: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. New
York, NY: Routledge, 2006.
Collins, Richard, et al, eds. Media Culture and Society: A Critical Reader. London: SAGE, 2009.
Collings, James C, Jim Collins. Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-modernism.
London: Routledge, 1989.
Crane, D. The Production of Culture. London: SAGE, 1992.
Davies, Ioan. Cultural Studies and Beyond: Fragments of Empire. London: Routledge, 1995.
Davies, Máire Messenger and Nick Mosdell, eds. Practical Research Methods for Media and
Cultural Studies: Making People Count. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press, 2006.
Dines, Gail and Jean McMahon Humez, eds. Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Critical Reader.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2010.
Docker, John. Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994.
Durham, Meenakshi Gigi and Douglas M. Kellner, eds. Media and Cultural Studies: Keywords.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
During, Simon. The Cultural Studies Reader. London, UK: Routledge, 2007.
Eagleton, Mary, ed. Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Easthope, Anthony. Literary into Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1991.
--- and K. McGowan, eds. A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader. Milton Keynes: Open
University Press, 1992.
Engler, Bernd, and Oliver Scheiding, eds. Key Concepts in American Cultural History. From the
Colonial Period to the End of the 19th Century. Trier: WVT, 2005.
Evans, Mary, ed. Feminism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. London and New
York, NY: Routledge, 2001.
Fluck, Winfried. Das kulturelle Imaginäre: Eine Funktionsgeschichte des amerikanischen Romans,
1790-1900. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp.
Frith, Simon, ed. Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. London and
New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.
Fiske, John. Introduction to Communication Studies. London: Methuen, 1982.
---. Television Culture. New York: Routledge, 1987.
---. Understanding Popular Culture. Boston, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
---. Reading the Popular. Boston, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Foster, H. Post-modern Culture. London: Pluto Press, 1983.
Franklin, Sarah, Celia Lury and Jackie Stacey, eds. Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies.
London and New York, NY: HarperCollins Academic, 1991.
Frith, Simon, ed. Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. London and
New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.
Frow, John, ed. Cultural Studies and Cultural Value. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 1995.
Fuery, Patrick and Nick Mansfield. Cultural Studies and Critical Theory. New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 2000.
Gardiner, Michael. Critiques of Everyday Life. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.
Giroux, Henry and P. McLaren, eds. Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture. London
and New York, NY: Routledge, 1994.
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from Cultural Writings. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1985.
Gray, A. and J. McGuigan, eds. Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader. London: Arnold
Publishers, 1993.
Green, Michael, ed. English and Cultural Studies: Broadening the Context. London and Atlantic
Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1987.
Gregg, Melissa. Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
González, Kevin A. Cultural Studies. Pittsburg, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009.
Grossberg, Lawrence. Cultural Studies in the Future Tense. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 2010.
---, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler, eds. Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Gunster, Shane. Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies. Toronto and
Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Gurevitch, M. et al, eds. Culture, Society and the Media. London: Methuen, 1982.
Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms.” Media, Culture and Society: A Critical Reader.
Ed. by R. Collins. London: SAGE, 1986.
---. “The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities” October 53: 11-90.
---. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: SAGE, 1997.
--- and Gieben, B. Formation of Modernity. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1992.
---, et al. Culture, Media, Language. London: Hutchinson, 1980.
--- and P. Whannel. The Popular Arts. London: Pantheon Books, 1964.
--- and Jessica Evans, eds. Visual Culture: The Reader. London: Sage Publications, 1999.
Hannerz, Ulf. Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places. London and New York, NY:
Routledge, 1996.
Harootunian, Harry D. History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of
Everyday Life. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Hartley, John, ed. American Cultural Studies: A Reader. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
Hartman, Geoffrey H. The Fateful Question of Culture. New York, NY: Columbia University
Press, 1997.
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
---. Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development. London
and New York, NY: Verso, 2006.
Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.
Hebel, Udo J. Einführung in die Amerikanistik/American Studies. Stuttgart & Weimar: J. B.
Metzler, 2008.
Held, D. Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas. London: Hurchinson, 1980.
Highmore, Ben. Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction. London and New York,
NY: Routledge, 2002.Hills, Matt. How to Do Things with Cultural Theory. Oxford and New
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Horwitz, Richard P., ed. The American Studies Anthology. New York, Toronto, et al.: SR Books,
2004.
Huyssen, A. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture and Postmodernism. London:
Macmillan, 1986.
Issawi, C. P. Cross-Cultural Encounters and Conflicts. New York, NY: Oxford University Press,
1998.
Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1991.
Jenkins, Henry, Jane Shattuc, and Tara McPherson, eds. Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures
of Popular Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
Jenks, C. Culture. London: Routledge, 1993.
Jordan, G. and C. Weedon. Cultural Politics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
Kaplan, Ann E. Postmodernism and its Discontents: Theories, Practices. New York, NY: Verso,
1987.
Kellner, Douglas. Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics between the Modern and
the Postmodern. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 1995.
Lefebvre, Henri. Everyday Life in the Modern World. Trans. S. Rabinovitch. New York, NY:
Transaction Books, 1984.
Leistyna, Pepi, ed. Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Leitch, Vincent. Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism. New York, NY:
Columbia Unversity Press, 1992.
Loomba, A. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.
Lotman, Yuri. The Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. Bloomington: Indiana
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Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1986.
Malpas, Simon and Paul Wake, eds. The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory. London and
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Marcus, Greil, and Werner Sollors, eds. A New Literary History of America. Cambridge, Mass.,
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McGuigan, Jim. Cultural Populism. London: Routledge, 1992.
McKay, George. “Americanization and Popular Culture.” Yankee Go Home (& Take Me With
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McRobbie, Angela. The Uses of Cultural Studies. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE,
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Mikula, Maja. Key Concepts in Cultural Studies. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Miller, Toby, ed. A Companion to Cultural Studies. London: Blackwell, 2011.
Milner, A. Contemporary Cultural Theory. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1991.
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Modleski, Tania, ed. Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture.
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Mookerjea, Sourayan, Imre Szeman, and Gail Faurschou, eds. Canadian Cultural Studies. With
a foreword by Fredric Jameson. Durham and London: Duke Univ. Press, 2009.
Morley, David and Kuan-Hsing Chen, eds. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies.
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--- and Kevin Robbins, eds. British Cultural Studies: Geography, Nationality, and Identity. Oxford
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Morris, Meaghan. “Banality in Cultural Studies.” Logics of television: Essays in Cultural
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Mukerji, Chandra and Michael Schudson. Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary
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Naremore, James and Patrick Brantlinger, eds. Modernity and Mass Culture. Indianopolis:
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Nelson, Cary and Lawrence Grossberg, eds. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana:
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Pedwell, Carolyn. Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison.
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Pensky, Max, ed. Globalizing Critical Theory. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Ryan, Michael. Cultural Studies: A Practical Introduction. Chichester, West Sussex & Malden,
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Rojek, Chris. Cultural Studies. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 2007.
Said, Edward W. Beginnings: Intention and Method. New York: Columbia University Press,
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--- and Tariq Ali. Conversations With Edward Said. Oxford, UK and New York: Seagull Books,
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---. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
--- and David Barsamian. Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said.
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---. Discourse on Popular Culture. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989.
Schwoch, James and Mimi White, eds. Questions of Method in Cultural Studies. Malden, MA
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Sim, Stuart, ed. The A-Z Guide to Modern Literary and Cultural Theorists. Hampstead: Harvester
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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. London and New
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