What Is Cultural Studies Anyway? Export

@article{citeulike:1363611, abstract = {"Cultural studies is about the historical forms of consciousness or subjectivity, or the subjective forms we live by, or, in a rather perilous compression, perhaps a reduction, the subjective side of social relations" (43). "The ultimate object of cultural studies is not, in my view, the text, but the social life of subjective forms at each moment of their circulation, including their textual embodiments" (62). "It is also possible to read texts as forms of representation, provided it is realised that we are always analysing a representation of representation. The first object, that which is represented in the text, is not an objective event or fact, but has already been given meanings in some other social practice. In this way it is possible to consider the relationship, if any, between the characteristic codes and conventions of a social group and the forms in which they are represented in a soap opera or comedy" (74).}, author = {Johnson, Richard}, citeulike-article-id = {1363611}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/466285}, journal = {Social Text}, keywords = {althusser, cinema, criticism, culture, ethnography, foucault, hall, marxist, media, psychoanalytic, reception, representation, saussure, semiology, structuralism, theory}, pages = {38--80}, posted-at = {2007-06-04 19:52:26}, priority = {0}, title = {What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/466285}, volume = {16}, year = {1986-1987} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1363611 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1363611 N2 - "Cultural studies is about the historical forms of consciousness or subjectivity, or the subjective forms we live by, or, in a rather perilous compression, perhaps a reduction, the subjective side of social relations" (43). "The ultimate object of cultural studies is not, in my view, the text, but the social life of subjective forms at each moment of their circulation, including their textual embodiments" (62). "It is also possible to read texts as forms of representation, provided it is realised that we are always analysing a representation of representation. The first object, that which is represented in the text, is not an objective event or fact, but has already been given meanings in some other social practice. In this way it is possible to consider the relationship, if any, between the characteristic codes and conventions of a social group and the forms in which they are represented in a soap opera or comedy" (74). JF - Social Text EP - 80 TI - What Is Cultural Studies Anyway? VL - 16 SP - 38 KW - althusser KW - cinema KW - criticism KW - culture KW - ethnography KW - foucault KW - hall KW - marxist KW - media KW - psychoanalytic KW - reception KW - representation KW - saussure KW - semiology KW - structuralism KW - theory AU - Johnson, Richard PY - 1986-1987///Winter UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/466285 ER -