Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 650-702) and index.

Part One: Culture and cultural studies. An introduction to cultural studies -- Questions of culture and ideology -- Culture, meaning, knowledge: the linguistic turn in cultural studies -- Biology, the body and culture. Part Two. The changing context of cultural studies -- A new world disorder? -- Enter postmodernism. Part Three. Issues of subjectivity and identity -- Ethnicity, race and nation -- Sex, subjectivity and representation -- Television, texts and audiences --Digital media culture -- Cultural space and urban place -- Youth, style and resistance -- Cultural politics and cultural policy.