ABSTRACT

Featuring new essays by such prominent cultural theorists as Tony Bennett, Homi Bhabha, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Constance Penley, Janice Radway, Andrew Ross, and Cornel West, Cultural Studies offers numerous specific cultural analyses while simultaneously defining and debating the common body of assumptions, questions, and concerns that have helped create the field.

chapter 1|22 pages

Cultural Studies

An Introduction

chapter 3|18 pages

Angels Dancing

Cultural Technologies and the Production of Space

chapter 5|12 pages

Engaging with the Popular

Audiences for Mass Culture and What to Say about Them

chapter 6|15 pages

I Throw Punches for My Race, but I Don't Want to Be a Man

Writing Us—Chica-nos (Girl, Us)/Chicanas—into the Movement Script

chapter 7|21 pages

Traveling Cultures

chapter 8|17 pages

Portraits of People with AIDS

chapter 9|20 pages

What is Real and What is Not

Female Fabulations in Cultural Analysis

chapter 11|13 pages

The Cultural Study of Popular Music

chapter 13|14 pages

Resisting Difference

Cultural Studies and the Discourse of Critical Pedagogy

chapter 14|14 pages

Guns in the House of Culture?

Crime Fiction and the Politics of the Popular 1

chapter 15|13 pages

AIDS, Keywords, and Cultural Work

chapter 16|37 pages

Missionary Stories

Gender and Ethnicity in England in the 1830s and 1840s

chapter 18|43 pages

The Promises of Monsters

A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others

chapter 20|26 pages

Aesthetics and Cultural Studies

chapter 21|19 pages

(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust

Reading Hustler

chapter 22|17 pages

Cultural Theory, Colonial Texts

Reading Eyewitness Accounts of Widow Burning

chapter 23|15 pages

Body Narratives, Body Boundaries

chapter 24|26 pages

“1968”

Politics and Identity

chapter 25|29 pages

“On the Beach”

chapter 27|11 pages

Technologizing the Self

A Future Anterior for Cultural Studies

chapter 28|19 pages

Mail-Order Culture and Its Critics

The Book-of-the-Month Club, Commodification and Consumption, and the Problem of Cultural Authority

chapter 29|25 pages

New Age Technoculture

chapter 30|15 pages

The Pachuco's Flayed Hide

Mobility', Identity', and Buenas Garras

chapter 34|17 pages

Bandits, Heroes, the Honest, and the Misled

Exploring the Politics of Representation in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 *

chapter 35|14 pages

“It Works for Me”

British Cultural Studies, Australian Cultural Studies, Australian Film

chapter 36|18 pages

Negative Images

Towards a Black Feminist Cultural Criticism

chapter 37|17 pages

Spectacular Action

Rambo and the Popular Pleasures of Pain *

chapter 39|13 pages

Excess and Inhibition

Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Art

chapter 40|12 pages

Post-Marxism and Cultural Studies

A Post-script