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.