Cultural Studies
Its precursor is Roland Barthes's "Mythologies”
(1957)
Inaugurated
by Raymond Williams" in his "Culture and Society” (1458) and by
Richard Hoggart's “The Use of Literacy” (1958)
In USA, the roots are in The New Historicism, and
with antecedents in Post structural theorists and cultural anthropologists.
The
Birmingham Centre became centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies founded by Hoggart in 1964.
It's antecedents are Louis Althussur and Michael
Foucault in Post Colonial and Clifford
Greetz and others in cultural anthropology.
Stuart
Hall:
Critical
Dialogues in cultural studies (1906)" "cultural studies and its Theoretical Legacies" essay
Dick Hebdege: "Sub Culture: The meaning of style"
Frankfurt
School (Germany)
It supported modern writers of 20th century.
It witnessed (Non-realistic) modern mass culture as
reduced to a bland Commercialism .
Leading
figures in Frankfurt
School
Max
Horkheimer,
Theodor
Adorno,
Herbert Marcuse
Walter
Benjamin
They analysed Modern Culture drawing on Marxist and
Freudian Theories.
Dialectic
of Enlightenment (1944) - by Theodor Adorno
&Horkheimer
Walter
Benjamin: "Author as producer " (1934)
Bretcht:
Epic theatre, alienation effect
Marxists
school Preferred 19th century, realistic writers. They
viewed culture in contrast to this Frankfurt School, such as Antonio Gramsci, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson, Stuart Hall,
Dick Hebdige, Frederic Jameson, Susan Bordo, Joh
Friske.
Richard Hoggart - Founder of cultural studies Centre
at Birmingham University.
E.P. Thompson: founder of New left movement
Janice Radnay: Reading
the Romance (1984)
A feeling for Books (1997)
Susan Borde: Unbearable
Weight: Feminism, Westeary Culture and the body(1992)
John
fiske Television Culture (1987)
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