Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies (Communication and Society)

The first collection of cultural studies essays from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership. Publisher's description. Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership. Participating in the `de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the American have to offer - the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition of critical theory, and about the cultural specificity of theory itself. A key theme is the place of the postcolonial nation within contemporary cultural theory - particularly those aspects of contemporary theory which see the category of contemporary theory which see the category of the nation as either outdated or suspect. The writers tackle subjects ranging from the televising of the Bicentennial to the role of policy in film, television and the heritage industry, from the use of video technologies with remote Aboriginal communities to the role of ethnography in cultural studies Introduction: Moving The Margins: Theory, Practice And Australian Cultural Studies / Graeme Turner -- Pt. I. Nation, Culture, Text. 1. Panorama: The Live, The Dead And The Living / Meaghan Morris. 2. The Fire Ceremony: For A Cultural Future / Eric Michaels -- Pt. Ii. Cultural Policy And National Culture. 3. The Shape Of The Past / Tony Bennett. 4. The Rise And Fall Of Entrepreneurial Tv: Australian Tv, 1986-90 / Tom O'regan. 5. Australian Cinema: An Anachronism In The 1980s? / Elizabeth Jacka -- Pt. Iii. Cultural Studies And The Analysis Of Culture. 6. Cultural Studies From The Viewpoint Of Cultural Policy / Stuart Cunningham. 7. Setting Limits To Culture / Ian Hunter. 8. What's 'ethnographic' About Ethnographic Audience Research? / Virginia Nightingale -- Pt. Iv. Popular Culture And The Media. 9. Azaria Chamberlain And Popular Culture / Noel Sanders. 10. Business, Pleasure, Narrative: The Folktale In Our Times / Helen Grace. Edited By Graeme Turner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.
Participating in the 'de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the American have to offer - the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition of critical theory, and about the cultural specificity of theory itself.
A key theme is the place of the postcolonial nation within contemporary cultural theory - particularly those aspects of contemporary theory which see the category of contemporary theory which see the category of the nation as either outdated or suspect. The writers tackle subjects ranging from the televising of the Bicentennial to the role of policy in film, television and the heritage industry, from the use of video technologies with remote Aboriginal communities to the role of ethnography in cultural studies. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Australian cultural studies......Page 12 1 Panorama the live the dead and the living......Page 30 2 The Fire Ceremony for a cultural future......Page 70 3 The shape of the past......Page 83 4 The rise and fall of entrepreneurial TV Australian TV 1986 90......Page 102 5 Australian cinema an anachronism in the 1980s......Page 117 6 Cultural studies from the viewpoint of cultural policy......Page 137 7 Setting limits to culture......Page 151 8 What’s ‘ethnographic’ about ethnographic audience research?......Page 175 9 Azaria Chamberlain and popular culture......Page 195 10 Business pleasure narrative the folktale in our times......Page 210 11 Understanding TV violence a multifaceted cultural analysis......Page 222 12 Reading the romance......Page 257 Index......Page 268 Nation, Culture, Text is the first collection of work in cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership. Participating in the `de-centering' of cultural studies--considering what perspectives non-Europeans or Americans have to offer--the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition of critical theory, and about the cultural specificity of theory itself.

Contributors: Tony Bennett, Stuart Cunningham, Ross Gibson, Pam Gilbert, Helen Grace, Ian Hunter, Elizabeth Jacka, Eric Michaels, Meaghan Morris, Virginia Nightingale, Tom O'Regan, Noel Sanders, John and Marian Tulloch.

The two essays in this section consider their texts contextually, as the products of specific historical conditions and of particularly defining discursive formations.