Introduction to the "Cultural Studies" Trend

Author: Yu Wenxiu
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: "Cultural Studies" emerged as a rising trend in the second half of the 20th century and has become a hot topic of research in academic circles both domestically and internationally. As an interdisciplinary trend with a broad perspective, it poses a challenging subject. This book primarily approaches the issue from the perspective of anti-power discourse, establishing and interpreting its main themes, aiming to achieve a comprehensive grasp of the "Cultural Studies" trend at the macro level. The main theoretical foundations and discursive resources of the "Cultural Studies" trend are Marxist philosophy, Western Marxism, and postmodernism. It examines and critiques the power factors and mechanisms inherent in the texts and practices of human cultural subcultural perspectives such as gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. As an anti-power discourse, the "Cultural Studies" trend is primarily composed of four basic themes: mass culture studies, postcolonial critique, gender politics, and the theory of reconstructing the role of intellectuals. In these theoretical fields, the "Cultural Studies" trend has basically formed its own theoretical framework and core ideas.