Assemblages of highly regarded texts for cultural studies
List A: Selected Cultural Theorists
| Adorno |
de Certeau |
Heidegger |
Merleau-Ponty |
| Althusser |
de Man |
Heller |
Mumford |
| Arendt |
de Saussure |
Horkheimer |
Nancy |
| Auerbach |
Deleuze |
Husserl |
Nietzsche |
| Austin |
Derrida |
Innis |
Panofsky |
| Bakhtin |
Durkheim |
Jakobson |
Peirce |
| Barthes |
Eco |
Jameson |
Reich |
| Bataille |
Elias |
Klein, M. |
Richards |
| Baudrillard |
Fanon |
Kojève |
Ricoeur |
| Benjamin |
Fish |
Kolakowski |
Rorty |
| Benveniste |
Foucault |
Kristeva |
Said |
| Bergson |
Freud |
Kuhn |
Sartre |
| Bhabha |
Frye |
Lacan |
Schmitt |
| Blanchot |
Gadamer |
Lefebvre |
Sedgwick |
| Bloch |
Genette |
Lefort |
Simmel |
| Blumenberg |
Girard |
Levi-Strauss |
Spivak |
| Bourdieu |
Gombrich |
Levinas |
Steiner |
| Butler |
Gramsci |
Lukacs |
Weber |
| Camus |
Grant |
Lyotard |
Weil |
| Cassirer |
Greimas |
Marcuse |
White, H. |
| Castells |
Guattari |
Marx |
Williams |
| Castoriadis |
Habermas |
Mauss |
Winnicott |
| de Beauvoir |
Hall |
McLuhan |
Wittgenstein |
List B: Cultural Studies Texts
Abraham, Nicolas, and Maria Torok. The Shell And The Kernel
Abrams, M. H. The Mirror And The Lamp
Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer
Anderson, Perry. In The Tracks Of Historical Materialism
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large
Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre And Its Double
Badiou, Alain. Being And Event
Bal, Mieke. Narratology
Bateson, Gregory. Steps To An Ecology Of Mind
Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity And The Holocaust
Beck, Ulrich. Risk Society
Bell, Daniel. Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism
Bell, Daniel. The End Of Ideology
Berger, John. Ways Of Seeing
Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction Of Reality
Berlin, Isaiah. The Proper Study Of Mankind
Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts Into The Air
Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology And
Cultural Studies At The Third Millennium
Bloom, Allan. The Closing Of The American Mind
Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon
Boal, Augusto. Theatre Of The Oppressed
Bookchin, Murray. Post-Scarcity Anarchism
Borch-Jakobsen, Mikkel. The Freudian Subject
Brown, Norman O. Life Against Death
Bryson, Norman. Vision In Painting
Buck-Morss, Susan. The Dialectics Of Seeing
Burger, Peter. Theory Of The Avant-Garde
Burke, Kenneth. The Philosophy Of Form
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero With A Thousand Faces
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring
Chatman, Seymour. Story And Discourse
Clifford, James. The Predicament Of Culture
Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine
Culler, Jonathan. The Pursuit Of Signs
Danto, Arthur. Narration And Knowledge
de Lauretis, Teresa. Technologies Of Gender
Debord, Guy. The Society Of The Spectacle
Della Volpe, Galvano. Critique Of Taste
Dollimore, Jonathan. Sexual Dissidence
During, Simon (ed.) The Cultural Studies Reader
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory
Eco, Umberto. The Open Work
Eliade, Mircea. The Myth Of The Eternal Return
Eliot, T. S. Selected Prose Of T. S. Eliot
Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society
Ewen, Stuart. Captains Of Consciousness
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched Of The Earth
Farrell, John. Paranoia And Modernity
Farrell, Warren. The Myth Of Male Power
Featherstone, Mike. Consumer Culture And Postmodernism
Felman, Shoshana. Testimony
Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture
Foster, Hal (ed.) The Anti-Aesthetic
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy Of The Oppressed
Fried, Michael. Absorption And Theatricality
Frith, Simon. Popular Music: Critical Concepts In Media And Cultural Studies
Fukuyama, Francis. The End Of History
Furedi, Frank. Culture Of Fear
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society
Giddens, Anthony. The Transformation Of Intimacy
Goldmann, Lucien. The Hidden God
Groden, Michael, and Martin Kreiswirth (ed.) The Johns Hopkins Guide To Literary Criticism & Theory
Grossberg, Larry (ed.) Cultural Studies
Haraway, Donna. The Haraway Reader
Hardt, Michael and Antoni Negri. Empire
Harvey, David. The Condition Of Postmodernity
Hassan, Ihab. The Postmodern Turn
Havelock, Eric. Origins Of Western Literacy
Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman
Hebdige, Dick. Subculture
Hofstadter, Douglas R. Goedel, Escher, Bach
Hoggart, Richard. The Uses Of Literacy
Honneth, Axel. The Struggle for Recognition.
Howe, Irving. Decline Of The New
Hughes, Robert. Culture Of Complaint
Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens
Hume, Kathryn. Fantasy And Mimesis
Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics Of Postmodernism
Huyssens, Andreas. After The Great Divide
Irigaray, Luce. This Sex Which Is Not One
Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature Of Subversion
James, Henry. Literary Criticism
Jay, Martin. The Dialectical Imagination
Kermode, Frank. The Sense Of An Ending
Kittler, Friedrich. Discourse Networks
Korsch, Karl. Marxism And Philosophy
Kosik, Karel. Dialectic Of The Concrete
Kracauer, Siegfried. From Caligari To Hitler
Kramer, Hilton. The Age Of The Avant-Garde
Kroker, Arthur. The Postmodern Scene
LaCapra, Dominick. Representing The Holocaust
Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe. Hegemony And Socialist Strategy
Laplanche, Jean. Life And Death In Psychoanalysis
Lasch, Christopher. The Culture Of Narcissism
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern
Levi, Primo. If This Is A Man
Levinas, Emannuel. Time And The Other
Leys, Ruth. Trauma: A Genealogy
Lovejoy, A. O. The Great Chain Of Being
Macherey, Pierre. A Theory Of Literary Production
Macpherson, C.B. The Political Theory Of Possessive Individualism
Marcus, Greil. Mystery Train
Marin, Louis. To Destroy Painting
Matejka, L. and K. Pomorska (ed.) Readings In Russian Poetics
McHale, Brian. Postmodern FictionMcIntyre, Alistair. After Virtue
Mills, C. Wright. The Sociological Imagination
Mitchell, W. J. T. Iconology
Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics
Norris, Christopher. What’s Wrong With Postmodernism?
Ong, Walter J. Orality And Literacy
Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae
Patai, Daphne, and Noretta Koertge. Professing Feminism
Popper, Karl. The Open Society And Its Enemies
Poster, Mark. The Mode Of InformationPrigogine, Ilya. From Chaos To Order
Propp, Vladimir. Morphology Of The Folk Tale
Quine, W.V.O. Word And Object
Rawls, John. A Theory Of Justice
Roazen, Paul. Freud And His Followers
Scholes, Robert. Structuralism In Literature
Serres, Michel. La Parasite
Sloterdijk, Peter. A Critique Of Cynical Reason
Smith, Barbara H. Contingencies Of Value
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. The Gulag Archipelago
Sontag, Susan. Against Interpretation
Starobinski, Jean. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency And Obstruction
Storey, John (ed.) Cultural Studies And The Study Of Popular Culture
Taussig, Michael. Mimesis And Alterity
Thompson, E. P. The Making Of The English Working Class
Todorov, Tzvetan. Introduction To Poetics
Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock
Tofts, Darren et al. (ed.) Prefiguring Cyberculture
Trilling, Lionel. The Liberal Imagination
Vattimo, Gianni. After Christianity
Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory Of The Leisure Class
Virilio, Paul. The Paul Virilio Reader
Wallis, Brian (ed.) Art After Modernism
Watson, James D. The Double Helix
Weed, Elizabeth (ed.) Coming To Terms
Wyschogrod, Edith. Spirit In Ashes
Yates, Frances A. The Art Of Memory
Zizek, Slavoj. The Ticklish Subject
List C: Arts and Letters Culture Texts
1. FICTION
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
Acker, Kathy. Empire Of The Senseless
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx And Crake
Ballard, J. G. Drowned World
Barth, John. End Of The Road
Bellow, Saul. Herzog
Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths
Burroughs, William. Naked Lunch
Calvino, Italo. On A Winter’s Night A Traveller
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand. Death On The Installment Plan
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting For The Barbarians
Conrad, Joseph. Heart Of Darkness
Delany, Samuel. Triton
DeLillo, Don. White Noise
Dick, Philip. The Man In The High Castle
Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime
Eco, Umberto. Name Of The Rose
Egan, Greg. Axiomatic
Faulkner, William. The Sound And The Fury
Forster, E.M. A Passage To India
Gibson, William. Neuromancer
Golding, William. Lord Of The Flies
Gordimer, Nadine. July’s People
Grass, Gunther. The Tin Drum
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
Hesse, Hermann. The Glass Bead Game
Houllebecq, Michel. The Elementary Particles
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
Irving, John. The World According To Garp
Joyce, James. Finnegan’s Wake
Kafka, Franz. The Trial
Kerouac, Jack. On The Road
Kertesz, Imre. Fateless
Koestler, Arthur. Darkness At Noon
Kundera, Milan. The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
Lem, Stanislaw. SolarisLessing, Doris. The Four-Gated City
Mann, Thomas. Death In Venice
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Miller, Henry. Tropic Of Cancer
Milosz, Czeslaw. The Captive Mind
Morrison, Toni. Beloved
Musil, Robert. The Man Without Qualities
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire
Naipaul, V.S. A House For Mr. Biswas
Orwell, George. 1984Pamuk, Orhan. Snow
Piercy, Marge. Woman On The Edge Of Time
Proust, Marcel. Remembrance Of Things Past
Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow
Robbe-Grillet, Alain. The Erasers
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children
Russ, Joanna. The Female Man
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher In The Rye
Sebald, W. G. Austerlitz
Semprun, Jorge. The Long VoyageSolzhenitsyn, Alexandr. One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
Styron, William. Sophie's Choice
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five
Woolf, Virginia. To The Lighthouse
Wright, Richard. Native Son
2. VISUAL ART
Bacon, Francis. Study After Velazquez's Portrait Of Pope Innocent X
Boccioni, Umberto. The Street Enters The House
Boltanski, Christoph. Monument
Cezanne, Paul. La Grande Baigneuse
Cohen, Alan. Berlin 1996
Dali, Salvador. Persistence Of Memory
de Chirico, Giorgio. The Disquieting Muses
Delaunay, Robert, Eiffel Tower
Duchamp, Marcel. Etants Donnes
Escher, M.C. Drawing Hands
Gauguin, Paul. La Orana Maria
Giacometti, Alberto. The Forest
Gris, Juan. BreakfastHolzer, Jenny. The Living Series
Kandinsky, Wassily. Composition VII
Kiefer, Anselm. Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
Klee, Paul, Angelus Novus
Klimt, Gustav. The Park
Long, Richard. Stone Water Sound
Magritte, René. Key Of Dreams
Manet, Edouard. Olympia
Marc, Franz. Fate Of The Animals
Mondrian, Piet Broadway Boogie WoogieMunch, Edvard. Scream
Newman, Barnett. Voice Of Fire
Penone, Giuseppe. 8 Metre Tree,
Picasso, Pablo. Les Demoiselles D’avignon
Pollock, Jackson. Convergence
Pollock, Jackson. Number 1, 1948
Richter, Gerhard. Mediation
Schwitters, Kurt Merzbau
Sherman, Cindy Untitled Film Stills
Smithson, Robert. Spiral Jetty
Thomas, Rover. Ruby Plains Killing Field I
Thomson, Tom The Jack Pine
Van Gogh, Vincent. Starry Night
Wall, Jeff. Dead Troops Talk
Warhol, Andy. Gold Marilyn
3. FILM
Altman, Robert. (1975), Nashville
Antonioni, Michelangelo. (1960), L’avventura
Bergman, Ingmar. (1957), The Seventh Seal
Bresson, Robert. (1959), Pickpocket
Bunuel, Luis, and Salvador Dali. (1929), Un Chien Andalou
Carne, Marcel. (1945), Children of Paradise
Chaplin, Charlie. (1936), Modern Times
Coen, Joel and Ethan. (1995), Fargo
Coppola, Francis Ford. (1979), Apocalypse Now
Cronenberg, David. (1983), Videodrome
Curtiz, Michael. (1942), Casablanca
de Sica, Vittorio. (1948), The Bicycle Thief
Eisenstein, Sergei. (1925), The Battleship Potemkin
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner. (1981), Lola
Fellini, Federico. (1963), 81/2
Ford, John. (1956), The Searchers
Godard, Jean-Luc. (1960), Éloge De L’amour
Greenaway, Peter. (1996), Pillow Book
Hitchcock, Alfred. (1959), North By Northwest
Huston, John. (1941), The Maltese Falcon
Jarmusch, Jim. (1984), Stranger Than Paradise
Keaton, Buster. (1927), The General
Kiezlowski, Krszystof. (1988), Decalogue
Kubrick, Stanley. (1964), Dr. Strangelove
Kurosawa, Akira. (1950), Rashomon
Kusturica, Emir. (1993), Arizona Dream
Lang, Fritz. (1928), Metropolis
Lanzmann, Claude. (1985 ), Shoah
Lynch, David. (2001), Mulholland Drive
McCarey, Leo. (1933), Duck Soup
Ozu, Yasujiro. (1953), Tokyo Story
Pontecorvo, Gillo . (1967), The Battle of Algiers
Ramis, Harold. (1993), Groundhog Day
Renoir, Jean. (1939), The Rules Of The Game
Resnais, Alain. (1959), Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Riefenstahl, Leni. Triumph Of The Will
Rivette, Jacques. (1990), La Belle Noiseuse
Scorcese, Martin. (1976), Taxi Driver
Scott, Ridley. (1982), Blade Runner
Sokurov, Aleksandr. (2002), Russian Ark
Tarantino, Quentin. (1994), Pulp Fiction
Tarkovsky, Andrei. (1966), Andrei RublevTarr Bela. (1994), Satantango
Truffaut, Francois. (1959), The 400 Blows
Vertov, Dziga. (1929), Man With A Movie Camera
Vigo, Jean . (1934), L'Atalante
Vinterberg, Thomas. (1998), Celebration
Visconti, Luchino. (1961), Rocco And His Brothers
Von Trier, Lars. (1996), Breaking The Waves
Welles, Orson. (1941), Citizen Kane
Wenders, Wim. (1987), Wings Of Desire
Zhang Yimou. (1991), Raise the Red Lantern
4. THEATRE
Albee, Edward. Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Anouilh, Jean. Antigone
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot
Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage And Her Children
Chekhov, Anton. Three Sisters
Churchill, Caroy. Cloud Nine
Genet, Jean. The Balcony
Gray, Spalding. Swimming To Cambodia
Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly
Ionesco, Eugene. The Bald Soprano
Norman, Marsha. ‘Night, Mother
Pinter, Harold. The Homecoming
Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters In Search Of An Author
Shepard, Sam. The Tooth Of Crime
Split Britches, Belle Reprieve
Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Weiss, Peter. Marat/Sade
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire