In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern in a wide range of fields and disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, the book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to pla...
In recent years 'culture' has become a central concern in a wide range of fields and disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this 'turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, the book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such a crucial part in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.
Section 1: Question of meaning, and indicate theat meaning does not arise directly from an object, but from the way in which an object (in this case Walkman) is represented in language, both oral and visual.
The first of the key processes in our cultural circuit - with the establishment of cultural meaning through the practice of representation. (查看原文)
Example is well picked and theoretical tools are well-balanced. And several notable strutures are invented or mentioned: the circuit of culture concerning Representation, Identity, Production, Comsumption, Regulation; the dialects of comsumption and product...
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We live in a modern society. We live with signs, Images, languages, believes. We have to represent ourselves, to identify the representation, to make the product, to consume and to recognize the meaning. Culture product is the less tangible product, it repr...
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天道酬勤
商务印书馆2005版
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商务印书馆2005版
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1 有用 Royce 2014-01-15 02:25:41
大名鼎鼎的circuit of culture来自本书，很拽，近20年后还是很有效的文化分析工具。
1 有用 Bradley_10 2023-03-08 22:12:27 浙江
读完最大的感受：文化循环的几个元素还真的就是得按照字面意义来理解….
2 有用 法厄同 2017-09-02 08:12:08
来Leeds以后写论文的第一本参考书...
0 有用 影身 2021-01-27 11:05:51
初步确认中英术语对应关系。
0 有用 夏堡 2012-06-10 00:29:47
representation - identity - production - consumption - regulation 十多年前的研究，希望能挖掘到新东西。