CCCS Selected Working Papers Volumes 1 and 2

Volume I: Preface, Formations of cultural studies SECTION 1 CCCS founding moments 1 Schools of English and contemporary society 2 Scope of research: First report, September 1964 SECTION 2 Theoretical engagements Introduction: CCCS and the detour through theory 3 People and culture 4 A response to ‘People and culture’ 5 A ‘reading’ of Marx’s 1857 introduction to the Grundrisse 6 Raymond Williams and cultural studies 7 The hinterland of science: Ideology and the ‘sociology of knowledge’ 8 Three problematics: Elements of a theory of working class culture 9 The aesthetic theory of the Frankfurt School 10 Georg Lukács 11 Roland Barthes: Structuralism/semiotics 12 Gramsci’s writings on the state and hegemony, 1916–35: A critical analysis 13 Politics and ideology: Gramsci 14 What is it he’s done? The ideology of Althusser 15 Exposition and critique of Julia Kristeva 16 Ideology and subjectivity 17 Women ‘inside and outside’ the relations of production 18 Steppin’ out of Babylon: Race, class and autonomy SECTION 3 Theorising experience, exploring methods Introduction: The politics of experience 19 Symbolism and practice: A theory for the social meaning of pop music 20 A critique of ‘community studies’ and its role in social thought 21 The experience of work 22 The semiotics of working class speech 23 Subcultural conflict and working class community 24 Subcultural conflict and criminal performance in Fulham 25 Common sense, racism and the sociology of race relations 26 Trying to do feminist intellectual work 27 What is cultural studies anyway? SECTION 4 Grounded studies Introduction: Founding fieldwork 28 The motorbike within a subcultural group 29 Football hooliganism and the skinheads 30 Working class images of society and community studies 31 ‘Really useful knowledge’: Radical education and working-class culture 1790–1848 32 The Kray twins: A study of a system of closure 33 Jackie: An ideology of adolescent femininity 34 Woman becomes an ‘individual’: Femininity and consumption in women’s magazines 1954–69, Index. Volume II: Preface, Introduction SECTION 1 Literature and society Introduction 1 Introduction to the French edition of Uses of Literacy 2 Literature/society: Mapping the field 3 Reading literature as culture 4 Notes on a theory of genre 5 Walter Greenwood: Working-class writer 6 Lawrence, Leavis and culture 7 The abuses of literacy 8 The hidden method: Lucien Goldmann and the sociology of literature SECTION 2 Popular culture and youth subculture 139 Introduction 9 The Hippies: An American ‘moment’ 10 The meaning of Tom Jones 11 The politics of popular culture 12 Breaking out, smashing up and the social context of aspiration 13 Working class youth cultures 14 Girls and subcultures 15 Defending ski-jumpers: A critique of theories of youth sub-cultures SECTION 3 Media Introduction 16 The spectacular world of Whicker 17 Television news and the Social Contract 18 Housewives and the mass media 19 Newsmaking and crime 20 The ‘unity’ of current affairs television 21 The ‘structured communication’ of events 22 Encoding and decoding in the television discourse 23 Reconceptualising the media audience: Towards an ethnography of audience SECTION 4 Women’s studies and feminism 415 Introduction 24 Images of women in the media 25 Relations of production: Relations of re-production 26 ‘It is well known that by nature women are inclined to be rather personal’ 27 A woman’s world: ‘Woman’ – an ideology of femininity 28 Housewives: Isolation as oppression 29 Psychoanalysis and the cultural acquisition of sexuality and subjectivity 30 The good, the bad and the ugly: Images of young women in the labour market SECTION 5 Race 561 Introduction: Lost in translation 31 Down these mean streets . . . the meaning of mugging Contents vii 32 Reggae, Rastas and Rudies: Style and the subversion of form 33 On the political economy of black labour and the racial structuring of the working class in England 34 Multicultural fictions 35 The organic crisis of British capitalism and race: The experience of the seventies 36 Just plain common sense: The ‘roots’ of racism 37 White woman listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood SECTION 6 History 759 Introduction: Entangled histories 38 Economy, culture and concept: Three approaches to marxist history 39 Out of the people: The politics of containment 1935–45 40 The history of a working-class Methodist Chapel Comment 851 ROGER GRIMSHAW 41 ‘Ideology’ and ‘consciousness’: Some problems in Marxist historiography 42 Women domestic servants 1919–1939: A study of a hidden Army, illustrated by servants’ own recollected experiences 43 What do we mean by popular memory? SECTION 7 Education and work, Introduction: The books at the end of the shelf 44 Social democracy, education and the crisis 45 Perspectives on schooling and politics 46 The Adult Literacy Campaign: Politics and practices 47 The strange fate of progressive education 48 How working class kids get working class jobs, Index.

Biography

Jan Campbell is senior lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham and a former member of staff at DCSS. Campbell’s research focuses on the interface between psycho[1]analysis and cultural theory, psychoanalysis and film and psychoanalysis and therapy practice (she is a clinical analyst). Her most recent book, Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life: Durations of the Unconscious Self is a rereading of Freud in relation to the work of Henri Bergson.

Ann Gray is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Lincoln, Editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of British Cinema and Television and Memory Studies. Her previous publications include Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods and Lived Cultures (2003) and Video Playtime: the Gendering of a Leisure Technology (1992). She is director of the AHRC project ‘Televising History: 1995–2010’.

Mark Erickson is currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Brighton. He was a member of staff at DCSS from 1996 until its closure in 2001. His most recent book is Science, Culture and Society: Making Sense of Science in the 21st Century (2005) published by Polity.

Stuart Hanson is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has previously taught at Wolverhampton University and in the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is author of a forthcoming book for MUP entitled From Silent Screen to Multi-screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896.

Helen Wood is Lecturer of Sociology at De Montfort University. She is author of Talking With Television forthcoming, University of Illinois Press, and has published on television, audiences, talk shows, reality television and cultural studies in a number of journals. She is also assistant editor of the journal Ethnography. She was an undergraduate student and member of staff in the Department of Cultural Studies at Birmingham.