An Introductory Bibliography to Cultural Studies

 

Prepared by Marguerite Helmers, Nicole Argall, Martin Brick, Mat Guffey, Ian Jungbacker, Janal Meyer, Janet Mohr, Melinda Munzinger-DeFrain, Kay Theissen. Department of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. For additions and corrections contact helmers@uwosh.edu.

 

 

 

Baker, Houston A., Manthia Diawara, and Ruth H. Lindeborg. Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1996.

 

Baker, Houston A.  Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1984.

 

---. Critical Memory: Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

 

Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981; 2000.

 

---. The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: U California P, 1997.

 

---. The Fashion System. Trans. Matthew Ward and Richard Howard. Berkeley: U California P, 1990.

 

---. Mythologies. Trans. Annette Lavers. New York: Noonday, 1990.

 

---. “Writing and Revolution.” Yale French Studies 0:39 (1967): 77–84.

 

Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells. From Mouse to Mermaid. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995.

 

Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1986.

 

Benstock, Shari. Footnotes: On Shoes. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2001.

 

Bercovitch, Sacvan, and Myra Jehlen, eds. Ideology and Classic American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.

 

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994.

 

Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: U California Press, 1993.

 

Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1984.

 

---. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1977.

 

Brantlinger, Patrick. Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983.

 

---. Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America. New York: Routledge, 1990.

 

---. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism 1830-1914. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.

 

Brenkman, John. Culture and Domination. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987.

 

Breward, Christopher. The Culture of Fashion. New York: Manchester UP, 1995.

 

Burayidi, Michael, A. ed. Multiculturalism in a Cross-National Perspective. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America,1997.

 

Burman, Barbara, ed. The Culture of Sewing. New York: Berg, 1999.

 

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge, 1990.

 

Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: U California P, 1984.

 

Christian, Barbara. “The Race for Theory.” Cultural Critique 6 (Spring 1987): 51-63.

 

Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988.

 

---. Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP,1997.

 

Clifford, James and George Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: U California P, 1986.

 

Coward, Rosalind. Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today. London: Palladin, 1984

 

Crane, Diana. Fashion and its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing. Chicago: UP Chicago, 2000.

 

Culler, Jonathan. Barthes: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983; 2000.

 

DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Dover, 1994.

 

Eagleton, Terry. Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory. London: Verso, 1978.

 

---. The Function of Criticism: From the Spectator to Post-Structuralism. London: Verso, 1984.

 

Folb, Edith A. Runnin' Down Some Lines: The Language and Culture of Black Teenagers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.

 

Fussell, Paul. Uniforms. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

 

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage, 1979.

 

---. The History of Sexuality. Vol. 1. New York: Vintage, 1980.

 

---. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon, 1980.

 

Gates, Henry Louis Jr. “The Black Person in Art: How Should S/He Be Portrayed?”

          Black American Literature Forum 21:1/2 (Spring–Summer 1987): 2–24.

 

Gay, Paul du, et al. Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman. London: Sage, 1997.

 

Gay, Paul du, et al. Production of Culture/Culture of Productio. London: Sage, 1997

 

Geertz, Clifford.  The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.

 

---. Local Knowledge:  Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

 

Gilroy, Paul. 'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1987.

 

Gutman, Herbert. Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class. New York: Pantheon, 1987.

 

Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International Publishers, 1971.

 

Hall, Stuart, ed.. Representations: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices. London: Sage, 1997.

 

Hartley, John and Roberta E. Pearson. American Cultural Studies: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

 

Haug, Wolfgang. Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in Capitalist Society. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1986.

 

Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Methuen, 1979.

 

Hoggart, Richard. The Uses of Literacy: Changing Pattern in English Mass Culture. Boston: Becon Press, 1961.

 

Hooks, Bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. New York: South End Press, 2000.

 

---. Where We Stand: Class Matters. New York: Routledge, 2000.

 

Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986.

 

Irwin, William, Mark Conard, Aeon Skoble, eds. The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’Oh of Homer. London: Open Court, 2001.

 

Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981.

 

Jenkins, Henry.  Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture.  New York: Routledge, 1992.

 

Mackay, Hugh. Consumption and Everyday Life. London: Sage, 1997.

 

Mattingly, Carol. Apprpriate[ing] Dress: Women’s Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.

 

McGann, Jerome J.  The Textual Condition.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.

 

Miller, David C. American Iconology. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993.

 

Peterson, Richard A. “Symbols and Social Life: The Growth of Cultural Studies.” Contemporary Sociology 19.4 (July 1990): 498–500.

 

Pullen, Kirsten.  “I-love-Xena.com: Creating Online Fan Communities.”  Web Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age.  Ed. David Gauntlett.  London: Arnold, 2000.  52-61.

 

Punter, David, ed. Introduction to Contemporary Cultural Studies. London: Longman, 1986.

 

Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. U North Carolina P, 1984.

 

Robinson, Fred Miller. Man In the Bowler Hat. Chapel Hill, NC: U of North

Carolina P, 1993.

 

Rubenstein, Ruth P. Dress Codes: Meanings and Messages in American Culture. Oxford: Westview Press, 1995.

 

Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.

 

Scholes, Robert. Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English. New Haven: Yale, 1985.

 

Sinfield, Alan, ed. Society and Literature, 1945-1970. New York: Holmes, 1983.

 

Stallybrass, Peter, and Allon White. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.

 

Stimpson, Catharine R. “Nancy Reagan Wears a Hat; Feminism and Its Cultural Consensus.” Critical Inquiry 14.2 ( Winter, 1988) 223-43.

 

Storey, John. Cultural Studies and the Studies of Popular Cultures: Theories and Methods. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

 

---, ed. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. New York: Prentice Hall, 1997.

 

---. What is Cultural Studies? London: Arnold, 1996.

 

Thompson. E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. New York: vintage, 1963.

 

Thompson, Kenneth. Media and Cultural Regulation. London: Sage, 1997.

 

Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society 1780-1950. New York: Harper, 1966.

 

---. Problems in Materialism and Culture. London: Verso, 1982.

 

---. Writing in Society. London: Verso, 1984.

 

Woodward, Kathryn, et al.  Identity and Difference. London: Sage, 1997.

 

Zuckerman, Mary Ellen. A History of Popular Women’s Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995. Connecticut: Greenwood P, 1998.