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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