Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section 1 Some foundations

Raymond Williams

1 `Culture is ordinary'

Roland Barthes

2 `The rhetoric of the image'

Stuart Hall

3 `The television discourse - encoding and decoding'

Richard Dyer

Terry Lovell

Jean McCrindle

4 `Soap opera and women'

Edward Said

5 `Orientalism'

Nicholas Garnham

6 `Concepts of culture - public policy and the cultural industries'

Janice Radway

7 `Reading Reading the romance'

Graham Murdock

8 `Cultural studies at the crossroads'

Section 2 Difference and identity

Phil Cohen

9 `Subcultural conflict and working-class community'

Erica Carter

10 `Alice in the consumer wonderland'

Paul Gilroy

11 `Black and white on the dance-floor'

Stuart Hall

12 `Minimal selves'

Bhikhu Parekh

13 `Between holy text and moral void'

Marie Gillespie

14 `Technology and tradition - audio - visual culture among south Asian families in west London'

Kobena Mercer

15 `Just looking for trouble - Robert Mapplethorpe and fantasies of race'

Section 3 Meaning and power

Liz Curtis

16 `Echoes of the present - the Victorian press and Ireland'

Judith Williamson

17 `Meaning and ideology'

Fredric Jameson

18 `Postmodernism and consumer society'

Paul Willis

19 `Symbolic creativity'

Mike Davis

20 `The view from futures past'

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

21 `Fictions of Europe'

Doreen Massey

22 `A global sense of place'

Section 4 Social selves and public policy

Pierre Bourdieu

23 `The new petite bourgeoisie'

Susan Christopherson

Michael Storper

24 `The city as studio; the world as back lot: the impact of vertical disintegration on the location of the motion picture industry'

Cornel West

25 `Nihilism in black America'

Barbara Einhorn

26 `Can Cinderella become a citizen?'

Elspeth Probyn

27 `A problematic - speaking the self'

Stuart Cunningham

28 `Cultural studies from the viewpoint of cultural policy'

Manuel Castells

29 `European cities, the informational society, and the global economy'

Ken Plummer

30 `An invitation to a sociology of stories'

Julian Stallabrass

31 `Empowering technology'