A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

Part 1 Semiology: introduction; Saussure, from "Course in General Linguistics"; Barthes, from "Mythologies"; Macherey, from "A theory of literary production"; Barthes, from S/Z; MacCabe, from "Realism and Cinema". Part 2 Ideology: introduction; Marx, from "Preface to the Critique"; Marx and Engels, from "The German Ideology"; Althusser, from "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatusses"; Said, from "Orientalism". Part 3 Subjectivity: introduction; Lacan, from "The Mirror Stage" from "Ecrits"; Kristeva, "The System and the Speaking Subject"; Foucault, "Panopticism" from "Discipline and Punish the History of Sexuality"; Barthes, from "The Pleasure of the Text". Part 4 Difference: introduction; Derrida, "Differance". Part 5 Gender: introduction; Freud, "The Universal Tendency Towards Debasement in Love"; Cixous, from "Sorties"; Mulvey, from "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"; Spivak, From "Displacement and the Discourse of Woman". Part 6 Postmodernism: introduction; Lyotard, from "The Postmodern Condition"; Jameson, from "Postmodernism"; Baudrillard, from "Simulations". Part 7 Documents in cultural studies: introduction; Leavis, from "Minority Culture and Mass Civilisation"; Adorno, "On Popular Music"; Williams, from "Culture and Society"; Williams, "Popular" from "Keywords"; Tzara, from "Memoirs of Dadaism".