A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

Section 1: SemiologyIntroduction
1.1 Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics
1.2 Roland Barthes, from Mythologies
1.3 Pierre Macherey, from A Theory of Literary Production
1.4 Umberto Eco, from The Narrative Structure in Fleming
1.5 Colin MacCabe, from Realism and the Cinema

Section 2: Ideology

Introduction
2.1 Karl Marx, from Preface to the Cinema
2.2 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from The German Ideology
2.3 Louis Althusser, from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus
2.4 Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex
2.5 Edward Said, from Orientalism
2.6 Homi K. Bhabha, from The Other Question
2.7 Slavoj Zizek, from The Sublime Object of Ideology

Section 3: Subjectivity

Introduction
3.1 Sigmund Freud, from Beyond the Pleasure Principle
3.2 Jacques Lacan, the Mirror Stage from Ecrits
3.3 Franz Fanon, from Black Skins, White Masks
3.4 Julia Kristevea, from The System and the Speaking Subject
3.5 Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish
3.6 Michel Foucault, from The History of Sexuality
3.7 Roland Barthes, from The Pleasure of the Text

Section 4: Difference

Introduction
4.1 Jacques Derrida Differance

Section 5: Gender

Introduction
5.1 Sigmund Freud, On the Universal Tendency...
5.2 Helene Cixous, from Sorties
5.3 Laura Mulvey, from Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
5.4 Manthia Diawara, from Black Spectatorship
5.5 Kobena Mercer, from Reading Racial Fetishism
5.6 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, from Real and Imagined Women
5.7 Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble
5.8 Homi K. Bhabha, from "Race", Time and the Revision of Modernity

Section 6: Postmodernism

Introduction
6.1 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition
6.2 Jean Baudrillard, from Simulations
6.3 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Inhuman
6.4 Jacques Derrida, from The Gift of Death
6.5 Jean Baudrillard, from The Spirit of Terrorism
6.6 Slavoj Zizek, from Welcome to the Desert of the Real

Summaries

Biographies

References and Index