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Birmingham CCCS founding: Hoggart — Uses of Literacy 1957 — working-class culture; Raymond Williams — Culture and Society; The Long Revolution — culture as ordinary; E.P. Thompson — Making of the English Working Class — history from below; Stuart Hall — Encoding/Decoding; Policing the Crisis; Dick Hebdige — Subculture: The Meaning of Style 1979 — punk; bricolage — Levi-Strauss — homology; resistance through rituals — Clarke; Jefferson; Cohen; Willis — Learning to Labour 1977 — lads — counter-school culture; Angela McRobbie — girls and subculture — bedroom culture; Frankfurt School influence — Adorno; Horkheimer; Benjamin; Marcuse; Althusser — ideological state apparatuses — interpellation — structures in dominance; Gramsci — hegemony — organic intellectuals — cultural struggle — consent; articulation theory — Hall — no necessary correspondence; floating signifiers; Laclau and Mouffe. Poststructuralism: Derrida — deconstruction — differance — trace — logocentrism; binary oppositions; Foucault — discourse — power/knowledge — disciplinary power — Discipline and Punish — panopticon; genealogy; dispositif; biopower — History of Sexuality — governmentality; Butler — gender performativity — Gender Trouble 1990 — performative citation — heterosexual matrix; queer theory — Sedgwick — epistemology of the closet; Lacan — the gaze — mirror stage — imaginary/symbolic/real; psychoanalytic film theory — Mulvey — male gaze — visual pleasure and narrative cinema 1975.

Foundational postcolonial texts: Said — Orientalism 1978 — discourse analysis of Western representations of the East — Foucauldian — othering; stereotyping; positive-colonial subject formation; Culture and Imperialism 1993; Bhabha — The Location of Culture 1994 — hybridity — colonial ambivalence — mimicry — mockery — sly civility — third space; Spivak — Can the Subaltern Speak? 1988 — critique of liberal representation — subaltern; strategic essentialism; Hall — New Ethnicities 1989 — end of essential Black subject — articulation — diaspora identity; Cultural Identity and Diaspora 1990 — two registers: continuity and rupture; Fanon — Black Skin White Masks 1952 — psychoanalytic colonialism — wretched of the earth — decolonisation. Race and representation in Britain: Gilroy — There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack 1987 — nationalism; race; The Black Atlantic 1993 — double consciousness — Du Bois — routes vs roots; After Empire 2004 — postcolonial melancholia; Macpherson Report — institutional racism — Stephen Lawrence; decolonise the curriculum — Rhodes Must Fall Oxford; SOAS. Contemporary race: Black Lives Matter 2020 — UK — Colston Bristol; Sewell Report 2021 — controversy — structural racism; Black British cultural production — Stormzy; Bernardine Evaristo — Girl Woman Other; Steve McQueen — Small Axe; Michaela Coel — I May Destroy You; intersectionality — Crenshaw; Collins; Combahee River Collective — Black feminist thought — interlocking oppressions.

Ideology critique: Marx — base/superstructure — ideology as false consciousness — ruling class ideas; Althusser — Ideology and ISAs — interpellation — dominant ideology thesis — Abercrombie; Turner; Hill — critique — ideology not uniformly effective; hegemony more useful — Gramsci — ideological struggle — partial consent; resistance; encoding/decoding — Hall — Encoding/Decoding 1980 — moment of production — dominant code embedded; moment of reception — dominant; negotiated; oppositional — polysemy limited by preferred reading; Morley — Nationwide audience studies 1980 — class-inflected readings; Radway — Romance — negotiated resistance; Ang — Watching Dallas — emotional realism; pleasure as politics; political economy of media — Murdoch and Golding — media ownership concentration; Herman and Chomsky — Manufacturing Consent 1988 — propaganda model — five filters: ownership; advertising; sourcing; flak; anti-communism; Curran and Seaton — Power Without Responsibility; Hallin and Mancini — media system typologies; social media and platform power — Gillespie — Politics of Platforms; Zuboff — surveillance capitalism — behavioural futures market; Dijck — Culture of Connectivity — platform logic; Andreessen Horowitz — tech ideology; Ofcom — Online Safety Act 2023 — UK regulation.

Feminist cultural theory: waves framework — first wave — Wollstonecraft — suffrage; second wave — Friedan — Feminine Mystique; Millett — Sexual Politics — patriarchy as political system; Cixous — ecriture feminine; Irigaray — speculum; third wave — riot grrrl; fourth wave — #MeToo; intersectionality; postfeminism — Gill — postfeminist sensibility — sexualisation as empowerment discourse; McRobbie — undoing feminism; Butler and performativity — Gender Trouble 1990 — gender as performative — not performance but citational practice — heterosexual matrix — regulatory fiction of gender coherence — drag as denaturalisation; Bodies That Matter 1993 — the materiality of sex — discursive constitution; critique of Butler: essentialism vs materialism; politics of recognisability — Fraser — redistribution vs recognition; queer theory — Sedgwick — Epistemology of the Closet 1990 — minoritising vs universalising; Foucault — History of Sexuality Vol I — repressive hypothesis critique; Warner — Fear of a Queer Planet — heteronormativity; Muñoz — Cruising Utopia — queer futurity; Ahmed — Queer Phenomenology — orientation; Jasbir Puar — Terrorist Assemblages — homonationalism; trans visibility — Laverne Cox; UK Gender Recognition Act debate — Gender Critical feminism — Kathleen Stock; trans inclusion debate.

Network society: Castells — Rise of the Network Society 1996 — informationalism; network logic; space of flows vs space of places; timeless time; Networks of Outrage and Hope 2012 — social movements in network society — Arab Spring; Occupy; 15-M; Benkler — Wealth of Networks — commons-based peer production; participatory culture critique — Fuchs — class relations in digital labour; Baym — Personal Connections in the Digital Age — relational media; Web 2.0 and participation — Jenkins — Convergence Culture 2006 — participatory culture; fan communities; transmedia storytelling; Shirky — Here Comes Everybody; critique: Dean — communicative capitalism; Lovink — networks without a cause; platform studies — Srnicek — Platform Capitalism 2016 — five platform types; platform ecosystems — winner-take-all — Amazon; Apple; Facebook; Google; Microsoft — surveillance capitalism — Zuboff; critical algorithm studies — Bucher — algorithmic power; Pasquale — The Black Box Society; Noble — Algorithms of Oppression — racial bias in search; O'Neil — Weapons of Math Destruction; globalisation and culture — Tomlinson — Cultural Imperialism vs Globalisation; Robertson — glocalisation; Appadurai — Modernity at Large — five scapes — ethnoscapes; mediascapes; technoscapes; financescapes; ideoscapes; diasporas and digital culture; world cinema — Bollywood; Nollywood — alternative media flows.

CCCS subcultural theory: Hebdige — Subculture: The Meaning of Style 1979 — punk as bricolage — Levi-Strauss — appropriation of dominant signs — resignification — safety pin; resistance through style — homology; McRobbie and Garber critique — girls absent; privatised bedroom culture; Willis — Learning to Labour — lads; Clarke; Jefferson; Cohen; Taylor — Resistance Through Rituals 1976 — spectacular subcultures vs working-class mainstream youth; incorporation — commercial co-optation — defuse resistance; post-subcultural theory — post-CCCS — Bennett — neo-tribes — Maffesoli — fluid; provisional; lifestyle-based; Muggleton — Inside Subculture — reflexive postmodern youth; Thornton — Club Cultures — subcultural capital — Bourdieu — taste; cultural capital; Redhead — post-subculture; Hodkinson — Goth Identity — goth scene — commitment; cultural capital and taste — Bourdieu — Distinction 1984 — habitus; capital; field — cultural capital — embodied; objectified; institutionalised; taste as socially structured — homology between class position and cultural preferences — symbolic violence; doxa; misrecognition; Peterson and Kern — cultural omnivore thesis — high-status groups consume broadly; Chan and Goldthorpe — cultural consumption and social stratification — UK evidence; fan studies — Jenkins — Textual Poachers 1992 — active fan reading — participatory culture; Hills — Fan Cultures; K-pop fandom — BTS — ARMY — transnational; digital labour; Stan Twitter; shipping; RPF — real person fiction.