An introduction to the practice of cultural studies, this book is ideal for undergraduate courses. Full of practical exercises that will get students thinking and writing about the issues they encounter, this book offers its readers the conceptual tools to practice cultural analysis for themselves. There are heuristics to help students prepare and write projects, and the book provides plenty of examples to help students develop their own ideas.
Written in a creative, playful and witty style, this book:

DAVID WALTON "has brought hard sci-fi roaring back to life" (Wall Street Journal) with "vivid, speculative science" (David Brin) in "an expanding universe of delight" (Washington Post). His novels are action-packed thrillers with a spot-on understanding of science and technology. David hails from Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife and eight children. An engineer by day and an author by night, David won the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award for his debut novel, TERMINAL MIND, and the 2018 John W. Campbell Award for THE GENIUS PLAGUE.

PART ONE: HIGH CULTURE GLADIATORS: SOME INFLUENTIAL EARLY MODELS OF CULTURAL ANALYSIS
Culture and Anarchy in the UK
A Dialogue with Matthew Arnold
The Leavisites and T.S. Eliot Combat Mass Urban Culture
Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the ¿Culture Industry¿
PART TWO: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF WORKING-CLASS CULTURE
From a Day Out at the Seaside to the Milk Bar
Richard Hoggart and Working-Class Culture
E.P. Thompson and Working-Class Culture as a Site for Conflict, Consciousness and Resistance
Towards a Recognizable Theory of Culture
Raymond Williams
PART THREE: CONSOLIDATING CULTURAL STUDIES: SUBCULTURES, THE POPULAR, IDEOLOGY AND HEGEMONY
Introducing Stuart Hall
The Importance and Re-evaluation of Popular Mass Culture
Youth Subcultures and Resistance
A Dialogue with >Subcultures and Widening Horizons
Further Strategies for Practice
How to Dominate the Masses Without Resorting to the Inquisition
Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony Theory
A Few Ways You Might Adapt Ideas from Louis Althusser to Cultural Studies
a Dialogue with Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde
PART FOUR: PROBING THE MARGINS, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN: REPRESENTATION, SUBORDINATION AND IDENTITY
Crying Woolf! Thinking with Feminism
Adapting Theory to Explore Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality
The Case of East is East
PART FIVE: HONING YOUR SKILLS, CONCLUSIONS AND ¿BEGIN-ENDINGS¿
Consolidating Practice, Heuristic Thinking, Creative Cri-tickle Acts and Further Research