Reading Into Cultural Studies

Reading Into Cultural Studies revisits a selection of key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and as a project. These texts address questions of power ideology and the possibilities and limits of resistance. Each of the eleven essays in the collection renews an early study in one area of cultural investigation bringing such seminal texts as Subculture by Dick Hebdige Loving With a Vengeance by Tania Modleski and Bond and Beyond by Tony Bennett back to the centre of attention However the essays are not purely celebratory. Each study is critically examined in a number of ways - for its research strategy its implicit theories of power and ideology for the empirical evidence it draws on and its conceptual framework. Together the essays provide an introduction to some of the central debates and issues in cultural studies.