CCCS Selected Working Papers Volume 2 1st Edition by Ann Gray, Jan Campbell, Mark Erickson, Stuart Hanson, Helen Wood 0415324416 9780415324410

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Author: Ann Gray, Jan Campbell, Mark Erickson, Stuart Hanson, Helen Wood

This collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting academic research and examples of the studies carried out under the auspices of the Centre. This volume is split into seven thematic sections that are introduced by key academics working in the field of cultural studies, and includes a preface by eminent scholar, Stuart Hall. The thematic sections are: Literature and Society Popular Culture and Youth Subculture Media Women’s Studies and Feminism Race History Education and Work.

Table of contents:

Section 1 Literature and society
Introduction
Preface
The place of literature at CCCS in the early 1970s
European theory
Dynamics of meaning production
Class, culture and literature
Re-visiting Richard Hoggart
Conclusion
Bibliography

1 Introduction to the French edition of Uses of Literacy
Notes

2 Literature/society Mapping the field
I How is the literature/society problem ‘thought’ in traditional literary criticism?
II The revival of interest in the literature/society theme
III Re-formulating the ‘break’
IV The Marxist traditions
Notes

3 Reading literature as culture
Reading literature as culture
Ideological reading
The problem of knowledge in cultural studies
The reading process
Notes

4 Notes on a theory of genre
The problem
The model
Application
Appendix
Notes

5 Walter Greenwood Working-class writer
Autobiography
The novel: Theoretical questions
The novel-analysis
Notes

6 Lawrence, Leavis and culture
Was Eastwood an organic community?
‘A collier’s son a poet!’
The family
Jessie Chambers
Pagans and socialists
The Chapel
The divided self
Notes

7 The abuses of literacy
Notes

8 The hidden method Lucien Goldmann and the sociology of literature
The world vision and the transindividual subject
World visions and ideologies
Coherence and dialectics
The world-vision as a working model
Goldmann and the novel
The early Lukacs
Rene Girard: ‘Triangular desire’ and ‘mediation’
The structural homology
Historical periodisation
Goldmann and the dialectic
Notes

Section 2 Popular culture and youth subculture
Introduction
References

9 The Hippies: an American ‘moment’
I Slogans and phrase-making
The existential now
II
III
References

10 The meaning of Tom Jones
The problem of method
The show
The show: opening
The show: guests
The show: regular features
The show: closing sequence
The notion of stardom
Notes

11 The politics of popular culture

12 Breaking out, smashing up and the social context of aspiration
Vandalism: an introduction
The youth scene
An absurd solution
Breaking out and smashing up
Some sort of conclusion
Author’s note
Notes
References

13 Working class youth cultures
Introduction
Part I – post-war capitalism and the problem of hegemony
Part II – the working class response
Part III: reading youth cultural styles
Part IV: the social reaction to youth cultures
Conclusion
Notes

14 Girls and subcultures
Are girls really absent from sub-cultures?
Where girls are visible, what are their roles? And do these reflect the general sub-ordination of women in the culture?
Do girls have alternative ways of organising their cultural life?
Conclusion
Notes

15 Defending ski-jumpers A critique of theories of youth sub-cultures
Introduction
The search for resistance: origins and limits
Sub-cultural resistance: main features of an approach
The punky reggae party: Hebdige on punk and race
Subcultures and working-class culture
Girls and boys: romance and sexuality
Conclusion: beyond a parody of the crisis
Postscript. Some points of clarification. April 1982
Acknowledgements
Notes
Conclusion
Bibliography

Section 3 Media
Introduction
The news from Brummejum how media studies got culture (with a Birmingham accent)
Media studies at CCCS in the 1970s
So – what was all that about?
Notes
Bibliography
Centre reports

16 The spectacular world of Whicker
The professional career or the career into professionalism
The telling style
Sensationalism
The Whicker interview
Managing impressions
The spectacle
From Mr. Alan Whicker:
Notes

17 Television news and the Social Contract
Notes

18 Housewives and the mass media
Radio
Television – ‘two worlds’
The feminine ‘world’ of television
Notes

19 Newsmaking and crime

20 The ‘unity’ of current affairs television
Introduction
The problematic practice: broadcasters vs. politicians
Current Affairs Values
The political context
The Panorama case study
Appropriating and re-appropriating the topic
Setting it up
Filling it out
Passing it around
Following the rules
Inflecting it
Breaking the rules: winning the game
Debating it
The ‘unity’ of current affairs
References

21 The ‘structured communication’ of events
I
II
III
IV
Notes and references

22 Encoding and decoding in the television discourse
Notes

23 Reconceptualising the media audience Towards an ethnography of audience
Hegemony and educability
The structure of the audiences
The structuration of access to different codes and meaning systems
Conclusion
Notes

Section 4 Women’s studies and feminism
Introduction
THE DIFFICULTY OF ‘BETWEEN’ – ‘A POSITION THAT ALMOST ISN’T THERE’
Determining ideology
The feminist, the housewife and the personal
Problematic (of ) femininity
Articulating difference
Notes
Bibliography

24 Images of women in the media

1. Woman as news

2. Woman as sex

3. Woman as humour

4. Woman’s self-presentation

5. Women in advertisements

6. Women in fiction
   Conclusion
   Bibliography

25 Relations of production Relations of re-production
Introduction
1 Domestic labour in relation to the production of surplus value
2 Surplus value and the wage
3 The wage form and its relation to the ideological role of the family
4 Relations of production: Relations of reproduction
Notes

26 ‘It is well known that by nature women are inclined to be rather personal’
Women by nature
… inclined to be rather personal
Acknowledgements
Notes and references

27 A woman’s world ‘Woman’ – an ideology of femininity
The ideology of femininity
‘Woman’ as media re/production of ideology
Notes and references

28 Housewives Isolation as oppression
Methodological notes
Wage labour
Isolation
Domestic labour: endless toil with no leisure
Generational reproduction
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes and references
Key to transcripts

29 Psychoanalysis and the cultural acquisition of sexuality and subjectivity
Introduction
Freud: anatomical or cultural privilege?
Lacan: sexuality, language and subjectivity
Feminist assessments of psychoanalysis
Juliet Mitchell: the material location of the unconscious
Marxism and Lacanian theory: feminist developments
Political and theoretical perspectives: psychoanalysis, feminism and Marxism
Psychoanalysis and Marxism
Conclusion
Notes and references

30 The good, the bad and the ugly Images of young women in the labour market
Young women’s position in the sexual, marriage and labour markets
The good, the bad and the ugly: images of young women
Conclusion
Notes
References

Section 5 Race
Introduction
Lost in translation
Notes
Bibliography

31 Down these mean streets … the meaning of mugging
Worsening structural inequalities
Notes
Bibliography

32 Reggae, Rastas and Rudies Style and the subversion of form
Introduction

1. Notting Hill nightmare, Brixton’s broken dreams

2. Sun, sea, and slavery

3. Babylon on Beeston Street

4. Music, film and the overthrow of form

5. A method in the madness

6. The skinhead interlude – when the stomping had to stop
   Notes
   Bibliography

33 On the political economy of black labour and the racial structuring of the working class in England
Recent Marxist theory
Notes
Bibliography

34 Multicultural fictions
Introduction
Multiculturalism in its context
Approaches to the deconstruction of multicultural forms
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography

35 The organic crisis of British capitalism and race: the experience of the seventies
Introduction
The reorganization of the international division of labour and black workers in Britain
Racism and authoritarianism in the seventies
Political violence, law and order and the ‘enemy within’
Making sense of the crisis the centrality of race
Conclusion: stepping into the eighties
Acknowledgements
Notes and references

36 Just plain common sense the ‘roots’ of racism
Introduction
Common sense
Common-sense racist ideologies
Common sense and the black family
Racist ideologies
Acknowledgements
Notes and references

37 White woman listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood
Constructing alternatives
Acknowledgements
Notes and references

Section 6 History
Introduction
Entangled histories
Introduction
Social history, histories of hegemony and the history of history
Servants and chapel goers cultural studies and social histories
From period pieces to histories of hegemony
The question of transitions
From histories of history to history and theory
Engaging Marxist history
On popular memory popular memory and historical representation
References

38 Economy, culture and concept Three approaches to marxist history
Introduction
Part I: Maurice Dobb and marxist history
Part II: Edward Thompson, Eugene Genovese and socialist-humanist history
Part III. Rationalism Hindess and Hirst
Bibliography

39 Out of the people The politics of containment 1935–45
Prefatory note: history and contemporary cultural studies
Starting points
In the 1930s
War and crisis
England, whose England? The war commentators
The movement away from party and the crisis of 1942
The centre and the failure of Common Wealth
The 1945 election
Retrospect
Notes

40 The history of a working-class Methodist Chapel
Introduction
Haslingden Road chapel: the setting
The social life of the Chapel
The social history of the Chapel
Factors in the development of the Chapel
Conclusion
References
Comment

41 ‘Ideology’ and ‘consciousness’ Some problems in Marxist historiography
Section one: Introduction
Section two: The centrality of experience
Section three: Class consciousness and social control
Section four: Sectionalism and politics
Section five: Culture or ideology?
Conclusion
Notes and references
Bibliography

42 Women domestic servants 1919–1939: A study of a hidden Army, illustrated by servants’ own recollected experiences
Home background
Work, wages, time off
Pleasures and diversions
Discipline and control
Notes

43 What do we mean by popular memory?
Popular memory as an object of study
Popular memory as a political practice
Resources
Difficulties and contradictions
Notes

Section 7 Education and work
Introduction
The books at the end of the shelf
Notes
References

44 Social democracy, education and the crisis
Preface
Introduction
The Labour Party
The sociology of education
Teachers and teacher professionalism
Educational expansion in the 1960s
Critique
The crisis
Notes
Bibliography

45 Perspectives on schooling and politics
Approaches to policy
Conditions, needs and requirements
A more complex view of requirements
Schooling in society
Political implications of the structural location of school
Culture, ideology and the field of public representations
Education and formal politics
Hegemony, settlement and crises
Notes and references

46 The Adult Literacy Campaign Politics and practices
Abbreviations used
Introduction: Adult literacy 1972–1980
Part I: The national campaign
Part II: Adult literacy at the grassroots
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography

47 The strange fate of progressive education
The selective take-up of progressivism
The new educational paradigm and curriculum interventions
The Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education (CPVE)
Model of society in CPVE
Education in CPVE
Students in CPVE
‘Core skills in YTS’
Education and the trainee
The FEU ‘conservative radicals?’
Access and waste
The educational experience
Conclusion
Notes

48 How working class kids get working class jobs
Key
Bibliography

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