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Title: HOW TO DO THINGS WITH CULTURAL THEORY
By: Matt Hills
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0340809159
ISBN 13: 9780340809150
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Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 26 August, 2005
Pages: 224
Description: A guide to the assumptions, readings and writings of cultural theory, and an intervention in contemporary debates, this book will be invaluable to anyone involved in studying, teaching or researching media and cultural studies.
Synopsis: Instead of approaching cultural theory as a set of pronouncements to be learnt, this book considers why lecturers, students and cultural producers and consumers outside the University system might all want to theorize what culture is and how it works. Taking its cue from J L Austin's infamous How to Do Things With Words, which argued that language doesn't just reflect the world but is used to achieve things in the world, this book approaches cultural theory as something to be used, performed, adapted, transformed and created in new contexts by its own consumer-producers. How To Do Things With Cultural Theory considers how key theories have been constructed and written, treating theory as a text to be analysed. What narratives recur across different cultural theories? And what does it mean to construct one's cultural identity as a 'theorist'? Addressing the cultural and subcultural identities that 'theory' generates and sustains, this book asks what desires, fantasies, ideals and politics drive people to become 'cultural theorists'. As well as analysing the production and circulation of theory, this book also tackles the thorny question of how best to read theory.Despite being what lecturers and students spend much of their time doing, the act of reading theory has typically been taken for granted or rendered invisible within cultural theory itself.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Hodder Arnold
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