The Joint Graduate Programme In

The Joint Graduate Programme in

Communication & Culture

PhD Qualifying Examination

Bibliography

The following document was developed from reading lists in the MA Core Issues courses, the Research Methods Workshop, the PhD Core course and the foundation courses in each area of concentration. Students are not expected to master the complete bibliography. The intention is for the document to be consulted as a resource when preparing for your comprehensive exams.

Communication & Culture 6000 3.0/CC8900: Core Issues in Cultural Studies (2001-2004)

Agger, Ben. Cultural Studies as Critical Theory. London: Falmer Press, 1992.

Ahmad, Aijaz. "Introduction: Literature among the Signs of Our Times." Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. London: Verso, 1992. 1-42.

---. "The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality." Race and Class 36.3 (1995): 1-20.

Al-Azmeh, Aziz. "Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant." Islams and Modernities. London: Verso, 1996. 17-39.

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” Mapping Ideology. Ed. Slavoj Zizek. London: Verso, 1994. 100-140.

---. "Postmodern Obscurantism and 'the Muslim Question'." Socialist Register 2003. Ed. Leo Panitch and Colin Leys. London: Merlin Press, 2003. 29-50.

Alessandrini, Anthony C. "Fanon Studies, Cultural Studies and Cultural Politics." Franz Fanon: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Anthony C. Alessandrini. New York: Routledge, 1999. 1-17.

Anderson, Benedict. "Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Cultural Roots; Chapter 3: The Origins of National Consciousness." Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. New York: Verso, 1993. 1-8; 9-36; 41-49.

Anderson, Perry. "Chapters 1 and 2." The Origins of Postmodernity. London and New York: Verso, 1998. 3-46.

Bannerji, Himani. “Chapter 3: The Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and the State in Canada.” The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationaism and Gender. Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2000. 87-124.

Baudrillard, Jean. "The Mirror of Production." Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings. Ed. Mark Poster. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988. 98-118.

---. "For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign." Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings. Ed. Mark Poster. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988. 57-97.

Baudrillard, Jean. "The Precession of Simulacra." Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas Kellner. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2001. 521-54.

Benjamin, Walter. "Chapter 3: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility." Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas Kellner. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2001. 48-70.

Bennett, Tony. “The Multiplication of Culture’s Utility.” Critical Inquiry 21 (1995): 861-889.

Berlant, Lauren. "National Brands/National Body: Imitation of Life." The Phantom Public Sphere. Ed. Bruce Robbins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. 234-56.

--. “The Theory of Infantile Citizenship.” The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. 25-53.

Bhabha, Homi. "The Postcolonial and the Postmodern." The Cultural Studies Reader, Second Edition. Ed. Simon During. London: Routledge, 1999. 189-208.

Buck-Morss, Susan. "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Revisited." October 62 (Fall 1992): 3-41.

Calhoun, Craig. "Civil Society and the Public Sphere." Public Culture 5 (1993): 267-80.

Callinicos, Alex. "Wonders Taken for Signs: Homi Bhabha's Postcolonialism." Transformation 1 (1995): 98-112.

Childs, Peter, and Williams, Patrick. “Chapter Three”; “Chapter Four”; “Chapter Five”. An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory. London: Prentice Hall Europe, 1997. 97-156; 227-234.

Cohen, Jean L. “Changing Paradigms of Citizenship and the Exclusiveness of the Demos.” International Sociology 14:3 (September 1999): 245-268.

Connor, Steven. "Excerpts." Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary, Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1997. 27-64-224-30.

Dawson, Michael C. “Globalization, the Racial Divide, and a New Citizenship”. Race, Identity, and Citizenship: A Reader. Ed. Rodolfo D. Torres, Louis F. Miron, Jonathan X. Inda. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1999. 373-384.

Debord, Guy. "The Commodity as Spectacle." Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas Kellner. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. 139-43.

Dirlik, Arif. "The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism." Critical Inquiry 20 (1994): 328-56.

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi and Kellner, Douglas. "Adventures in Media and Cultural Studies: Introducing Keyworks." Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas Kellner. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2001. 1-29.

Dworkin, Dennis. "Chapter Three: Culture Is Ordinary." Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. 78-109.

Eagleton, Terry. "Ideology." The Eagleton Reader. Ed. Stephen Regan. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. 228-45.

---. "Chapter One." The Idea of Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 1-31.

---. "Chapter One." After Theory. London: Allen Lane, 2003. 1-22.

Eley, Geoff. "Nations, Publics and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century." Habermas and the Public Sphere. Ed. Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. 289-339.

Fanon, Franz. "On National Culture." Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Ed. Patrick Williams. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 36-52.

Foster, Hal. "Readings in Cultural Resistance." Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics. Seattle: Bay Press, 1985. 157-79.

Frank, Thomas. “Chapter 8: New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right”. One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy. New York: Doubleday, 2000. 276-306.

Fraser, Nancy. "Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy." The Phantom Public Sphere. Ed. Bruce Robbins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. 1-32.

Garnham, Nicholas. "The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World." Public Culture 5 (1993): 251-65.

Gibson, Nigel. "Fanon and the Pitfalls of Cultural Studies." Franz Fanon: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Anthony C. Alessandrini. New York: Routledge, 1999. 99-125.

Gordon, Daniel. "On the Supposed Obsolescence of the French Enlightenment." Postmodernism and the Enlightenment. Ed. Daniel Gordon. New York: Routledge, 2001. 201-24.

Gramsci, Antonio. "History of the Subaltern Classes; the Concept of Ideology; Cultural Themes: Ideological Material." Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas Kellner. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2001. 43-47.

Grossberg, Lawrence. “Cultural Studies Vs. Political Economy: Is Anybody Else Bored with this Debate”. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. Second Edition. Ed. John Storey. London: Prentice Hall, 1998. 613-624.

Gunster, Shane. Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Habermas, Jurgen. "Sections I and II." Trans. Thomas Burger. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. 1-56.

---. "Chapter Five: The Public Sphere: An Encyclopaedia Article." Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas Kellner. Oxford: Blackwell Publisher, 2001. 102-07.

Hall, Stuart. "Popular Culture and the State." Popular Culture and Social Relations. Ed. Colin Mercer and Janet Woollacott Tony Bennett. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1986. 22-49.

---. "Culture, Community, Nation." Cultural Studies 7 (1993): 349-63.

Hansen, Miriam. "Unstable Mixtures Dilated Spheres: Negt and Kluge's the Pubic Sphere and Experience, Twenty Years Later." Public Culture 5 (1993): 179-212.

Harvey, David. "Postmodernism." The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1989. 39-65.

---. "The Political-Economic Transformation of Late Twentieth-Century Capitalism: From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation." The Condition of Postmodernity. London: Basil Blackwell, 1989. 121-97.

Haug, W.F. "Chapters 1 and 2." Critique of Commodity Aesthetics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. 13-56.

Hodge, Robert and Kress, Gunther. “Chapter1: Social Semiotics”; “Chapter 2: The Founding Fathers Revisited”. Social Semiotics. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1988. 1-12; 13-36.

Hoggart, Richard. "Selections from the Uses of Literacy (1958)." Cultural Resistance Reader. London: Verso, 2002. 303-13.

Horkheimer, Max and Adorno, Theodor. "Chapter 4: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception." Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas Kellner. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. 71-101.

Jacoby, Russell. “Chapter 3: Mass Culture and Anarchy”. The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy. New York: Basic Books, 1999. 67-99.

Jameson, Fredric. "Culture and Finance Capital." The Cultural Turn. London: Verso, 1998. 136-61.

---. "Marxism and Postmodernism." The Cultural Turn. London: Verso, 1998. 33-49.

---. "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism." Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas Kellner. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2001. 550-87.

Johnson, Richard. “What is Cultural Studies Anyways?” Social Text 16 (1987): 38-80.

Larrain, Jorge. "Identity, the Other, and Postmodernism." Transformation: Post-ality: Marxism and Postmodernism 1 (1995): 271-89.

Larsen, Neil. "Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism: An Introduction." Determinations. London: Verso, 2001. 2-31.

Lazarus, Neil. "Disavowing Decolonization: Nationalism, Intellectuals and the Question of Representation in Postcolonial Theory." Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 68-143.

Lodziak, Conrad. “On Explaining Consumption.” Capital and Class 72 (2000): 111-133.

Lukacs, Georg. "The Phenomenon of Reification." Trans. Rodney Livingstone. History and Class Consciousness. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1971. 83-110.

---. "What Is Orthodox Marxism?" Trans. Rodney Livingstone. History and Class Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971. 1-26.

---. "Class Consciousness." Trans. Rodney Livingstone. History and Class Consciousness. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971. 46-82.

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. "Defining the Postmodern." The Cultural Studies Reader, Second Edition. Ed. Simon During. New York: Routledge, 1999. 142-45.

Marx, Karl. "Selections from Capital." The Marx-Engels Reader. Ed. Robert C. Tucker. New York: Norton, 1978. 302-29.

Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich. "The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas." Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M Kellner. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2001. 39-42.

McNally, David. "Marxism in the Age of Information." New Politics 6.4 (Winter 1998): 99-106.

Milner, Andrew. "Chapter Four." Class. London: Sage Publications, 1999.

Mooers, Colin. “The New Fetishism: Citizenship and Finance Capital.” Studies in Political Economy 66 (Fall 2001): 59-84.

Morris, Martin. "Contradictions of Postmodern Consumerism and Resistance." Studies in Political Economy 64 (Spring 2001): 7-32.

Mulhern, Francis. "Excerpts." Culture/Metaculture. London: Routledge, 2000. 49-83; 107-24.

Plant, Sadie. "Excerpt." The Most Radical Gesture: Situationist International in a Postmodern Age. London, New York: Routledge, 1992. 1-37.

Ong, Aiwa. “Cultural Citizenship as Subject Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States.” Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader. Ed. Rodolfo D. Torres, Louis F. Miron, Jonathan X. Inda. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1999. 262-288.

Quayson, Ato. "Excerpt." Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? London: Polity Press, 2000. 1-22.

Said, Edward. "Orientalism (Excerpts)." Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Ed. Patrick Williams. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 132-49.

San Juan, E. "Chapter 7." Beyond Postcolonial Theory. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 227-50.

Slater, Don. "Chapter 4: The Culture of Commodities." Consumer Culture and Modernity. Oxford: Polity Press, 1998. 100-30.

Thompson, E.P. "Excerpt." The Making of the English Working Class. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963. 9-15.

Thompson, E.P. "Custom and Culture." Customs in Common. New York: The New Press, 1991. 1-15.

Volpp, Leti. “Blaming Culture for Bad Behavior.” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 12: 1 (2000): 89-116.

Voloshinov, V.N. "Chapter 1: The Study of Ideologies and Philosophy of Language." Trans. Ladislav Matejka and I.R. Titunik. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. 9-16.

Warner, Michael. "The Mass Public and the Mass Subject." The Phantom Public Sphere. Ed. Bruce Robbins. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1993. 234-56.

Williams, Raymond. "Chapter 6: Hegemony; Chapter 9: Structures of Feeling." Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. 108-14; 28-35.

---. "Culture Is Ordinary." Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism. London: Verso, 1989. 3-18.

Witheford, Nick Dyer. "Postmodernists." Cyber_Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High_Technology Capitalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 165-218.

Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Demos Versus ‘We, the People’: From Ancient to Modern Conceptions of Citizenship”. Democracy Against Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 204-237.

Young, Iris Marion. “Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Idea of Universal Citizenship”. The Citizenship Debates: A Reader. Ed. Gershon Shafir. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. 263-290.

Communication & Culture 6001 3.0/8901: Core Issues in Communication Studies

Adorno, Theodor. "On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening." The Essential Frankfurt School Reader. Ed. Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt. New York: Continuum, 1982. 270-99.

Ang, Ien. "The Nature of the Audience." Questioning the Media. Ed. Ali Mohammadi & Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi John Downing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995. 155-65.

---. "Cultural Studies, Media Reception and the Transnational Media System." Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World. London: Routledge, 1996. 133-49.

Barthes, Roland. "Myth Today." Mythologies. St. Albans: Paladin, 1973. 109-31.

Baudrillard, Jean. "The Ecstasy of Communication." The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Ed. Hal Foster. Port Townsend, WA: West Bay Press, 1983. 126-34.

Beattie, Earle. "Confused Terminology in the Field of Communication, Information and Mass Media: Brillig but Mimsy." Canadian Journal of Communication (1981).

Berelson, Bernard. "The State of Communication Research." Public Opinion Quarterly 23.1 (1959): 1-17.

Blumer, Herbert. "Excerpt." Movies and Conduct. New York: MacMillan, 1933. 141-91.

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver. "Media Imperialism: Towards an International Framework for the Analysis of Media Systems." Mass Communication and Society. Ed. James Curran et al. Beverley Hills: Sage Publications, 1979. 116-35.

Burgoon, Judee K. and White, Cindy H. "Researching Nonverbal Message Production: A View from Interaction Adaptation Theory." Message Production: Advances in Communication Theory. Ed. John O. Greene. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 1997. 279-312.

Cantril, Hadley and Allport, Gordon W. "Excerpt." The Psychology of Radio. New York: Harper & Bros., 1935. 3-35.

Carey, James. "A Cultural Approach to Communication." Communication 2.2 (1975): 1-22.

---. "The Chicago School and Mass Communication Research." American Communication Research--the Remembered History. Ed. Everette E. Dennis and Ellen Wartella. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996. 21-38.

Casmir, Fred L. Building Communication Theories: A Socio/Cultural Approach. Hillsdale, New Jersey; Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.

Corner, John. "Meaning, Genre and Context: The Problematics of 'Public Knowledge' in the New Audience Studies." Mass Media and Society, Second Edition. Ed. James Curran and Michael Gurevitch. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 267-84.

Craig, Robert T. "Why Are There So Many Communication Theories?" Journal of Communication 43.3 (1993): 26-33.

---. "Communication Theory as a Field." Communication Theory 9.2 (1999): 119-61.

Czitrom, Daniel. "Excerpt." Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. 91-121.