Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION 1
Seminology
Introduction
1.1 Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics
1.2 Roland Barthes, 'The Great Family of Man' from Mythologies
1.3 Pierre Macherey, from A Theory of Literary Production
1.4 Umberto Eco, from 'The Narrtive Structure in Feming'
1.5 Colin MacCabe, from 'Realism and the Cinema'
SECTION 2
Ideology
Introduction
2.1 Karl Marx, from 'Preface', A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
2.2 Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, from The German Ideology
2.3 Louis Althusser, from 'Ideology and Idealogical State Apparatuses'
2.4 Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex
2.5 Edward Said, from Orientalism
2.6 Homi K. Bhanha, from 'the 'Other' Question'
2.7 Slavoj Zizek, from the Sublime Object of Ideology
SECTION 3
Subjectivity
Introduction
3.1 Sigmund Freud, from Beyond the Pleasure Principle
3.2 Jacques Lacan, form 'The MirrorStage'
3.3 Frantz Fanon, from Black Skin/White Masks
3.4 Julia Kristeva, from 'The System and the Speaking Subject'
3.5 Michel Foucault, from The History of Sexuality
3.6 Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish
3.7 Roland Barthes, from The Pleasure of the Text
SECTION 4
Difference
Introduction
4.1 Jacques Derrida, 'Difference'
SECTION 5
Gender and Race
Introduction
5.1 Sigmund Freud, 'On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love'
5.2 Helene Cixous, from 'Sorties'
5.3 Laura Mulvey, from 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'
5.4 Kobena Mercer, from 'Reading Racial Fetishism'
5.5 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, from Real and Imagined Women
5.6 Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble
5.7 Homi K. Bhabha, from ''Race', Time and the Revision of Modernity'
SECTION 6
Postmodernism
Introduction
6.1 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition
6.2 Jean Baudrillard, from Simulations
6.3 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Inhuman
6.4 Jaques Derrida, from The Gift of Death
6.5 Jean Baudrillard, from The Spirit of Terrorism
6.6 Slavoj Zizek, from Welcome to the Desert Real
