Reading Culture

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Reading Culture is written by Pramod K Nayar and published by SAGE. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 076193474X (ISBN 10) and 9780761934745 (ISBN 13).

The theory, methods and politics of cultural studies are examined in this book which is concerned with the ways in which public culture reflects the relations between identities, race, gender and class. Adapting a range of theories and approaches, the author demonstrates how a cultural form effectively disseminates meanings - a political act - by marginalizing certain identities, norms, modes of thinking and knowledges while valuing others. The book covers topics as diverse as comic book superheroes, patriotic songs in Hindi films, the projection of ′authenticity′ in tourist brochures and the poetics of display in museums.