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A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

2nd Edition
0335213553 · 9780335213559
Praise for the first edition“The selection is judicious and valuably supplemented by thorough commentaries that contextualise and clarify the debates and issues and the importance of each excerpt. Though today there may be many readers in and aroun… Read More
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  • Colour, print bound version of the complete text
  • Section 1: Semiology

    Introduction

  • 1.1 Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics
  • 1.2 Roland Barthes, from Mythologies
  • 1.3 Pierre Macherey, from A Theory of Literary Production
  • 1.4 Umberto Eco, from The Narrative Structure in Fleming
  • 1.5 Colin MacCabe, from Realism and the Cinema

    Section 2: Ideology

    Introduction

  • 2.1 Karl Marx, from Preface to the Cinema
  • 2.2 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from The German Ideology
  • 2.3 Louis Althusser, from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus
  • 2.4 Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex
  • 2.5 Edward Said, from Orientalism
  • 2.6 Homi K. Bhabha, from The Other Question
  • 2.7 Slavoj Zizek, from The Sublime Object of Ideology

    Section 3: Subjectivity

    Introduction

  • 3.1 Sigmund Freud, from Beyond the Pleasure Principle
  • 3.2 Jacques Lacan, the Mirror Stage from Ecrits
  • 3.3 Franz Fanon, from Black Skins, White Masks
  • 3.4 Julia Kristevea, from The System and the Speaking Subject
  • 3.5 Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish
  • 3.6 Michel Foucault, from The History of Sexuality
  • 3.7 Roland Barthes, from The Pleasure of the Text

    Section 4: Difference

    Introduction

  • 4.1 Jacques Derrida Differance

    Section 5: Gender

    Introduction

  • 5.1 Sigmund Freud, On the Universal Tendency...
  • 5.2 Helene Cixous, from Sorties
  • 5.3 Laura Mulvey, from Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
  • 5.4 Manthia Diawara, from Black Spectatorship
  • 5.5 Kobena Mercer, from Reading Racial Fetishism
  • 5.6 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, from Real and Imagined Women
  • 5.7 Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble
  • 5.8 Homi K. Bhabha, from "Race", Time and the Revision of Modernity

    Section 6: Postmodernism

    Introduction

  • 6.1 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition
  • 6.2 Jean Baudrillard, from Simulations
  • 6.3 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Inhuman
  • 6.4 Jacques Derrida, from The Gift of Death
  • 6.5 Jean Baudrillard, from The Spirit of Terrorism
  • 6.6 Slavoj Zizek, from Welcome to the Desert of the Real

    Summaries

    Biographies

    References and Index