Cultural studies / edited by Nilanjana Gupta

Includes bibliography

Introduction The stars down to earth: The Los Angeles times astrology column -- Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer The chanting dogs -- Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya/Debiprasad Chatterjee Forms -- Raymond Williams From Mythologies -- Roland Barthes Encoding, decoding -- Stuart Hall From the noble savage to the third world -- Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart The discrete charms of Indian terrorism -- Ashis Nandy Kathak in Calcutta: A story of tradition and change -- Pallabi Chakraborty Walking in the city -- Michel de Certeau Selfing the city: the myth of Calcutta and the culture of everyday life -- Ipsita Chanda From renaissance self-fashioning -- Stephen Greenblatt Shakespeare, cultural materialism and the new historicism -- Jonathan Dollimore Under institutional sanction: the discourse of violence -- Kumkum Sangari