Birmingham School Of Cultural Concepts And Theory Of Popular Culture Studies

"Birmingham School" can be seen as an important school of Western Marxism.Ittakes literature study as the starting point to build the particular cultural ideas andpopular cultural theories,which, moreover, thrusts a great impact on.contemporaryliterature theory.So,taking Birmingham School's cultural ideas and popular culturaltheories as a topic could be quite valuable to contemporary literature study.And besides,a research on Birmingham School's cultural ideas and popular cultural theories also hasunneglectable significance to contemporary cultural studies.As we all know , CulturalStudies ,which was born in 1960s',spreads across every academic area of the world innear fifty years,making up of a trend of thought which influences contemporaryacademia most.To a majority of scholars, Birmingham School's cultural ideas andpopular cultural theories can be seen as the source of Cultural Studies.So,to intervene inthe academic front position, a systematic and in-depth research on Birmingham School'scultural ideas and popular cultural theories has unvaluable significance to resolve varietyproblems in contemperary cultural studies;to review the influence of Cultural Studiesonto the other theories and thoughts;to build cultural theories,popular cultural theoriesand mass cultural theories which should get Chinese characters.All these values indicatesthat,a research on Birmingham School's cultural ideas and popular cultural theories isimperative under the situation.As we all know, the research value of BirminghamSchool's cultural ideas and popular cultural theories could only embodied from asynthetical study on it entirely and profoundly.However, whether internally orexternally,the synthetical study on this theory seems obviously unsufficiently. So,the mainobjective of this thesis is to make a systematic and in-depth synthetical research onBirmingham School's cultural ideas and popular cultural theories on the basis ofparticular reading and understanding the school's important original work.,which, in themean time,giving a dialectic evaluation on it. We hope that,such work could help to afforda comprehensive understanding to the theory of this school,and promote our academia toinherit its theoretical fruit critically,and building our own cultural ideas and popularcultural theories with Chinese character, accordingly.There are four methods used in this thesis:problems concluding,keywords analyzing,historical researching and comparative researching.With problems concluding,...