MA in Culture and Thought after 1945 Centre for Modern Studies Preliminary Reading List 2014-15

Abramovich, Alex, Cinderella story: notes on contemporary culture, Christchurch NZ: Cybereditions, 2002 Adorno, Theodor. The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture, ed. by J. M. Bernstein, London: Routledge, 2001. Bartolovich, Crystal. History After the End of History: Critical Counterfactualism and Revolution, New Formations 59 2006, 63-80. [KT] Baudrillard, Jean, Simulacra and Simulations in Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, Stanford, 1988, 166-184 and elsewhere see: www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html Bourdieu, Pierre, Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. Deutsche, Rosalyn, "Art and Public Space: Questions of Democracy." Social Text 33 (1992): 34-53. Donald, James and Ali Rattansi, eds. Race, Culture and Difference. London: Sage, 1992. Easthope, Anthony, Contemporary Film Theory, London: Longman, 1993 Elliott and Attridge, eds. Theory After Theory, London: Routledge, 2011 Fer, Briony, The Infinite Line: Remaking Art after Modernism, Yale UP, 2004 Foster, Hal, et al, eds. Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. London: Thames and Hudson, 2004. Gauntlett David and Annette Hill, TV Living: television, culture, and everyday life, London: Routledge, 1999 Grant, Claire, Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, London: Routledge, 2007 Habermas, Jrgen, The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article. New German Critique 1.3 (1974): 49-55. Hadley, Louisa, and Elizabeth Ho. Eds. Thatcher and after: Margaret Thatcher and her afterlife in contemporary culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011.

Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford: OUP, 2005 Hill, John, British Cinema in the 1980s, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999, Chapter 10. Hopkins, Anthony G., Rethinking Decolonisation, Past and Present, no. 200 (2008), 211-47. Howe, Stephen, When if ever Did empire end?: recent studies of imperialism and decolonization, Journal of Contemporary History vol. 40, no. 3 (2005), 585-99. Howells, Richard, Visual Culture, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003 Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism, New York: Routledge, 1988. Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, New York: Wiley, 1987, Chapter 10. Jameson, Fredric, 'Postmodernism: Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism', New Left Review I/146, July-August 1984. Jenks, Chris, Visual Culture, London: Routledge, 2005 Lazarus, Neil. Postcolonial Studies After the Invasion of Iraq, New Formations 59 2006, 10-22 Lefebvre, Henri, Critique of everyday life, London: Verso, 2005 Levinson, Jerrold ed., Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Oxford: OUP, 2003 Lippard, Lucy, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, New York: Praeger, 1973. Littler, Jo Radical Consumption: shopping for change in contemporary culture, Berkshire: Open University Press, 2009 Newcomb, Horace, ed., Television: The Critical View, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Nora, Pierre, Between memory and history: Les lieux de mmoire, Representations 26 (Spring 1989), 7-25. Ward, Stuart (ed.), British Culture and the End of Empire, Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001. In addition, students may also want to read and/or browse the contents of Contemporary Literature - the journal available online via York library.