What is Cultural Studies Anyway?

abstract academic disciplines analysis Angela McRobbie approaches argument aspects Barthes Britain British capitalist CCCS Stencilled Paper Centre cinema circuit Communication concerned concrete consciousness context critical critique cultural forms cultural production cultural studies definitions developments discourse discussions E.P. Thompson elements empiricism especially ethnography example feminist film formal forms of cultural Frankfurt School genre Gramsci Hutchinson Ideology important insights instance intellectual interesting involves Kegan Paul kind knowledge labour language Learning to Labour linguistics literary lived culture Marx Marxist mass means Metro narrative object organisation particular Paul Willis perhaps Popular Culture Course post-structuralist practice private forms problem questions Raymond Williams readers reading representation Richard Johnson Routledge and Kegan semiology sense social groups social relations Society sociology structuralist structured struggles Stuart Hall subjective forms television tendency textual theoretical theory Tony Bennett traditions transformations University University of Birmingham whole working-class