Cultural Studies


Primary Sources   I   Cultural Studies (United States)


Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (trans. Ben Brewster, 1971).

Houston A. Baker Jr., Manthia Diawara, and Ruth H. Lindeborg, eds., Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader (1996).

Anne Balsamo, "Feminism and Cultural Studies," Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 24.1 (1996).

Anne Balsamo, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (1996).

Roland Barthes, Mythologies (1957, Mythologies, trans. Annette Lavers, 1972).

Janet Batsleer et al., Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class (1985).

Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (1993).

Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement (1979, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. Richard Nice, 1986).

Patrick Brantlinger, Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (1990).

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, On Ideology (1978).

Michel de Certeau, L’Invention du quotidien, I, arts de faire (1980, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall, 1984).

John Clarke, Chas Critcher, and Richard Johnson, eds., Working Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory (1979).

Ioan Davies, Cultural Studies and Beyond: Fragments of Empire (1995).

Simon During, The Cultural Studies Reader (1993, 2d ed., 1999).

John Fiske, Media Matters: Race and Gender in U.S. Politics (1994, rev. ed., 1996).

John Fiske, Reading the Popular (1989).

John Fiske, Television Culture (1987).

John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture (1989).

Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité (1976, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley, 1978).

Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir (1975, Discipline and Punish, trans. Alan Sheridan, 1979).

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993).

Paul Gilroy, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1987, reprint with foreword by Houston A. Baker Jr., 1991).

Henry Giroux, Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education (1992).

Henry Giroux, Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies (2000).

Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (ed. and trans. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith, 1971).

Lawrence Grossberg, Bringing It All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies (1997).

Lawrence Grossberg, Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays on Popular Culture (1997).

Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paul Treichler, eds., Cultural Studies (1992).

Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson, eds., Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Postwar Britain (1976).

Stuart Hall et al., "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms," Culture, Ideology, and Social Process (ed. Tony Bennett et al., 1981).

Stuart Hall, Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972–79 (1980).

Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991).

John Hartley and Roberta E. Pearson, American Cultural Studies: A Reader (2000).

Dick Hebdige, Cut ‘n’ Mix: Culture, Identity, and Caribbean Music (1987).

Dick Hebdige, Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (1988).

Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979).

Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life (1957).

Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialektik der Aufklärung: Philosophische Fragmente (1947, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott, 2002).

Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc, "The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies," Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (ed. Jenkins, McPherson, and Shattuc, 2002).

Richard Johnson, "What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?" Social Text 16 (1986–87).

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (trans. Winston Moore and Paul Cammack, 1985, 2d ed., 2001).

Lingua Franca, ed., Sokal Hoax: The Sham that Shook the Academy (2000).

Toby Miller, ed., A Companion to Cultural Studies (2001).

Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Pleasure," Screen 16 (1975).

Cary Nelson, "Always Already Cultural Studies: Two Conferences and a Manifesto," Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 24 (1991).

Cary Nelson and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, eds., Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies (1996).

Richard Ohmann, English in America: A Radical View of the Profession (1976).

Tim O’Sullivan et al., eds., Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies (1983, 2d ed., 1994).

Constance Penley, ed., Feminism and Film Theory (1988).

Janice Radway, A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire (1997).

Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (1984, 2d ed., 1991).

Andrew Ross, Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits (1991).

Andrew Ross, ed., Science Wars (1996).

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1994).

Edward Said, Orientalism (1978).

John Storey, ed., What Is Cultural Studies? A Reader (1996).

E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963).

Graeme Turner, British Cultural Studies: An Introduction (1990, 3d ed., 2003).

Gauri Viswanathan, Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (1989).

Catherine A. Warren and Mary Douglas Vavrus, eds., American Cultural Studies (2002).

Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780–1950 (1958).

Women’s Studies Group, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Women Take Issue: Aspects of Women’s Subordination (1979).


Primary Sources   I   Cultural Studies (United Kingdom)


Matthew Arnold, "Culture and Anarchy" (1869, Storey, Cultural Theory).

Paul Du Gay et al., Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman (1997).

Antonio Gramsci, Selections from Prison Notebooks (1971).

Michael Green, "The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies," What Is Cultural Studies? A Reader (ed. John Storey, 1996).

Jostein Gripsrud, "‘High Culture’ Revisited" (Storey, Cultural Theory).

Stuart Hall, "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms," What Is Cultural Studies? A Reader (ed. John Storey, 1996).

Stuart Hall, "Encoding and Decoding," Culture, Media, Language (ed. Stuart Hall et al., 1980).

Stuart Hall, "Notes on Deconstructing ‘The Popular’" (Storey, Cultural Theory).

Stuart Hall, "On Postmodernism and Articulation," Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (ed. David Morley and  Kuan-Hsing Chen, 1996).

Stuart Hall, "The Rediscovery of Ideology: The Return of the Repressed," Culture, Society, and the Media (ed. Michael Gurevitch et al., 1982).

Stuart Hall, "The Work of Representation," Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (ed. Hall, 1997).

Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy (1990).

F. R. Leavis, "Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture" (Storey, Cultural Theory).

Daniel Miller, Material Culture and Mass Consumption (1987).

David Morley, The "Nationwide" Audience (1980).

John Storey, Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life (1999).

John Storey, "Expecting Rain: Opera as Popular Culture?" High-Pop (ed. Jim Collins, 2001).

John Storey, ed., Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (1998, 2d ed., 2001).

E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963).

V. N. Volosinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1973).

Raymond Williams, "The Analysis of Culture"(1998) (Storey, Cultural Theory).

Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (1959, reprint, 1993).


Primary Sources   I   Cultural Studies (Australia)


Ien Ang and Jon Stratton, "Asianising Australia: Notes towards a Critical Transnationalism in Cultural Studies," Cultural Studies 10.1 (1996).

Tony Bennett, Culture: A Reformer’s Science (1998).

Tony Bennett, "Putting Policy into Cultural Studies," (Grossberg, Nelson, and Treichler).

Stuart Cunningham, Framing Culture: Criticism and Policy in Australia (1992).

Susan Dermody and Elizabeth Jacka, The Screening of Australia (2 vols., 1987–88).

John Fiske, Robert Hodge, and Graeme Turner, Myths of Oz: Reading Australian Popular Culture (1987).

John Frow, Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995).

John Frow and Meaghan Morris, eds., Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader (1993).

Ross Gibson, South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia (1992).

Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler, Cultural Studies (1992).

Robert Hodge and Vijay Mishra, eds., The Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind (1991).

Ian Hunter, Culture and Government (1988).

Jim McGuigan, Culture and the Public Sphere (1996).

Meaghan Morris, "On the Beach" (Grossberg, Nelson, and Treichler).

Meaghan Morris, The Pirate’s Fiancee: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism (1988).

Meaghan Morris, Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998).

Tom O’Regan, Australian National Cinema (1996).

Kay Schaffer, Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition (1988).

Graeme Turner, "‘It works for me’: British Cultural Studies, Australian Cultural Studies, Australian Film" (Grossberg, Nelson, and Treichler).

Graeme Turner, National Fictions: Literature, Film, and the Construction of Australian Narrative (1986).

Graeme Turner, ed., Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies (1993).

Richard White, Inventing Australia (1981).


Primary Sources   I   Cultural Studies (Canada)


Charles R. Acland, Residual Media (2007).

Charles R. Acland, Screen Traffic (2003).

Taiaiake Alfred, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (2009).

Ian Angus, A Border Within: National Identity, Cultural Plurality, and Wilderness (1997).

Robert E. Babe, Culture of Ecology: Reconciling Economics and Environment (2006).

Constance Backhouse, Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900–1950 (1999).

Himani Bannerji, The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Gender (2000).

Jody Berland, North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space (2009).

John Borrows, Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (2002).

Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2001).

Diana Brydon and Helen Tiffin, Decolonising Fictions (1993).

Jenny Burman, Transnational Yearnings: Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City (2010).

Howard Cardinal, The Unjust Society (1969).

Richard Cavell, McLuhan in Space (2002).

Ioan Davies, Cultural Studies and Beyond: Fragments of Empire (1995).

Richard J. F. Day, Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity (2000).

Fernand Dumont, The Vigil of Quebec (1974).

Nick Dyer-Witheford, Cyber Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism (1999).

Northrop Frye, "Conclusion," Literary History of Canada (1965, ed. Carl F. Klinck).

Northrop Frye, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Togo Salmon, City of the End of Things (2009).

Gary Genosko, McLuhan and Baudrillard (1999).

Barbara Godard and Smaro Kamboureli, Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture: Selected Essays by Barbara Godard, 1987–2005 (2008).

George Parkin Grant, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965).

George Parkin Grant, Technology and Empire (1969).

Robert A. Hackett and William K. Carroll, Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication (2006).

Anthony Hall, The American Empire and the Fourth World (2003).

Frances Henry and Carol Tator, Racism in the Canadian University: Demanding Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equity (2009).

Harold A. Innis, The Bias of Communication (1951).

Harold A. Innis, The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy (1940).

Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada (1930).

Smaro Kamboureli, Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literatures in English (2007).

Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki, eds.Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature (2007).

Arthur Kroker, Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis McLuhan Grant (1984).

Susan Lord and Janine Marchessault, eds., Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema (2007).

Patrick Macklem, Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (2001).

Lee Maracle, Daughters Are Forever (2002).

Janine Marchessault, Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media (2005).

Marshall McLuhan, "Canada as Counter-Environment," Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (ed. Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman, and Gail Faurschou, 2009).

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964).

Patricia Monture-Angus, Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations' Independence (1999).

Sherene Razack, Malinda Sharon Smith, and Sunera Thobani, States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (2010).

Kim Sawchuk, Barbara A. Crow, and Michael Longford, eds., The Wireless Spectrum: The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media (2010).

Rob Shields, Places on the Margin: Alternatives Geographies of Modernity (1991).

Roger I. Simon, The Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning, and Ethics (2005).

Roger I. Simon, Sharon Rosenberg, and Claudia Eppert, eds., Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma (2000).

Stephen Slemon and Helen Tiffin, eds., After Europe: Critical Theory and Post-Colonial Writing (1989).

Dorothy E. Smith, Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People (2005).

Sunera Thobani, Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada (2007).

Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture (2005).

Anthony Wilden, The Imaginary Canadian (1980).

Anthony Wilden, System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange (1980).