Contemporary Cultural Theory

This lucid and concise introduction to cultural theory brings a much-needed sense of historical and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies. Contemporary Cultural Theory identifies six alternative paradigms in cultural studies - utilitarianism, culturalism, marxism, structuralism, feminism and postmodernism - and explores the socio-discursive contexts within which each of these have developed 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 and posthumanism.