List of Key Intfuence boxes List of Defining Concept boxes Preface:A User s Guide Acknowledgements Part i Cultural Theory 1 Culture and cultural studies 1.0 Introduction 1.1 What is cultre? 1.2 Issues and problems in the study of culture 1.3 Theorising culture 1.4 Cultural studies 2 Communication and representation 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Language communication and representation 2.2 Signs and semiotics 2.3 Advertising and representaion 2.4 Language represenataion power and inequality 2.5 Art and representation 2.6 Television and representation 2.7 Summary:reflection and consturciting 3 Culture power and inequality 3.0 Introductuion 3.1 Theorising about culture power and inequallity 3.2 Legitimating inequality 3.3 Culture and the production and reprodction of inequality 3.4 Conclusion Part ii Cultural studies 4 Topographies of culture:Geography power and represetation 4.0 Intrduction 4.1 Cultural geography 4.2 The power of place:locality language and culture 4.3 The country and the city 4.4 Culture and national identity 4.5 Orientalism:discourses of the East 4.6 Travelling cultures diasporic cultures and global cltures 4.7 Conclusion:separation and connectuion 5 Cultue time and history 6 Politics and culture 7 Cultured bodies 8 Subcltures:Treading resistance and social divisions 9 Visual culture Afterword Bibliography Index