Defines our understanding of colonialism and empire.

This fully revised and updated 4th edition of John Storey's successful reader in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture provides a theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture, and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues in cultural studies. Content has been revised and essays have been replaced and updated. The Reader offers students the ...

This text contains two of Walter Benjamin's essays, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction , and Theses on the Philosophy of History , as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust, and book collecting.

Based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Said's essays explore what it means to be an intellectual today. He argues that the intellectual's role is to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation.

In this book the author gives an account of the arguments surrounding the proposition of postmodernism and contributes to the debate on what exactly is the nature of current social change.

Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behaviour are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics and culture.