Cultural Studies

This book covers the various models of cultural studies and serves as a guide for its theory and practice. It discusses its trajectory and growth as a discipline since the 1960s and analyses various core concepts like popular culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, race, and hegemony. Cultural Studies, which has emerged as one of the most seminal and intellectual discourses of our times, occupies a strategic location intersecting humanities and social sciences. This book covers the various models of cultural studies prevalent across the globe today and serves as a guide for its theory and practice. It discusses its trajectory and growth as a discipline since the 1960s and analyses various core concepts like popular culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, race, gender, ideology, and hegemony. The subject matter of this book also includes: Roland Barthes: Myth as Culture Blue cultural studies Agency and structure The Reality behind ‘Reality’ TV Shows James Bond: The Popular Hero Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)