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How To Do Things With Cultural Theory
Matt Hills
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Description for How To Do Things With Cultural Theory
Paperback.
Instead of approaching cultural theory as a set of pronouncements to be learnt, this book considers why lecturers, students and cultural producers and consumers outside the University system might all want to theorize what culture is and how it works. Taking its cue from J L Austin's infamous How to Do Things With Words, which argued that language doesn't just reflect the world but is used to achieve things in the world, this book approaches cultural theory as something to be used, performed, adapted, transformed and created in new contexts by its own consumer-producers. How To Do Things With Cultural ... Read more
Instead of approaching cultural theory as a set of pronouncements to be learnt, this book considers why lecturers, students and cultural producers and consumers outside the University system might all want to theorize what culture is and how it works. Taking its cue from J L Austin's infamous How to Do Things With Words, which argued that language doesn't just reflect the world but is used to achieve things in the world, this book approaches cultural theory as something to be used, performed, adapted, transformed and created in new contexts by its own consumer-producers. How To Do Things With Cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340809150
SKU
V9780340809150
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99-10
About Matt Hills
Matt Hills is a senior lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. He is the author of Fan Cultures and The Pleasures of Horror, and has contributed to a wide range of books including edited volumes on Cultural Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Stardom.
Reviews for How To Do Things With Cultural Theory
What is at stake in cultural theory? Rarely has this been addressed so openly as in Matt Hills' new book. By applying the interpretative vigilance of his work in Fan Studies back onto Cultural Theory's implicit practices of adulation, Hills opens up original territory: the work that Cultural Theory does on itself to differentiate itself in an increasingly crowded cultural ... Read more