Böcker av Antony Easthope

Difference, the key term in deconstruction, has broken free of its rigorous philosophical context in the work of Jacques Derrida, and turned into an excuse for doing theory the easy way.

This judicious selection of key works by Stephen Heath, Fredrick Jameson, Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doanne and others, represents some of the most important contemporary writing about film.

Focusing on the shift in modern literary study to cultural studies, this work argues that this new discipline must find a methodological consensus for its analysis of canonical and popular texts. Through a criticism of competing theories, it shows how this new study should, and should not, be done.

Introduces the key readings in critical and cultural theory. This title guides students through the tradition of thought, from Saussure's early writings on language to contemporary commentary on world events by theorists such as Baudrillard and Zizek.