A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

Section 1: Semiology<p>Introduction<br>1.1 Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics <br>1.2 Roland Barthes, from Mythologies <br>1.3 Pierre Macherey, from A Theory of Literary Production <br>1.4 Umberto Eco, from The Narrative Structure in Fleming <br>1.5 Colin MacCabe, from Realism and the Cinema <p>Section 2: Ideology <p>Introduction <br>2.1 Karl Marx, from Preface to the Cinema <br>2.2 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from The German Ideology <br>2.3 Louis Althusser, from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus <br>2.4 Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex <br>2.5 Edward Said, from Orientalism <br>2.6 Homi K. Bhabha, from The Other Question <br>2.7 Slavoj Zizek, from The Sublime Object of Ideology <p>Section 3: Subjectivity <p>Introduction <br>3.1 Sigmund Freud, from Beyond the Pleasure Principle <br>3.2 Jacques Lacan, the Mirror Stage from Ecrits <br>3.3 Franz Fanon, from Black Skins, White Masks <br>3.4 Julia Kristevea, from The System and the Speaking Subject <br>3.5 Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish <br>3.6 Michel Foucault, from The History of Sexuality <br>3.7 Roland Barthes, from The Pleasure of the Text <p>Section 4: Difference <p>Introduction <br>4.1 Jacques Derrida Differance <p>Section 5: Gender <p>Introduction<br>5.1 Sigmund Freud, On the Universal Tendency... <br>5.2 Helene Cixous, from Sorties <br>5.3 Laura Mulvey, from Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema <br>5.4 Manthia Diawara, from Black Spectatorship <br>5.5 Kobena Mercer, from Reading Racial Fetishism <br>5.6 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, from Real and Imagined Women <br>5.7 Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble <br>5.8 Homi K. Bhabha, from "Race", Time and the Revision of Modernity <p>Section 6: Postmodernism <p>Introduction <br>6.1 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition <br>6.2 Jean Baudrillard, from Simulations <br>6.3 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Inhuman <br>6.4 Jacques Derrida, from The Gift of Death <br>6.5 Jean Baudrillard, from The Spirit of Terrorism <br>6.6 Slavoj Zizek, from Welcome to the Desert of the Real <p>Summaries <p>Biographies <p>References and Index <br>