ABSTRACT
For their new ‘Cultural Studies’ series, editors Janice Radway (Duke University) and Richard Johnson (University of Birmingham) have already promised us a good deal. A book on Madonna and ‘representational politics’, one on the ‘functions of imagery’, another on ‘complexity and politics in cultural studies’, and an ‘introduction to media studies’ are forthcoming (p. viii). Two works have been published in the series so far, one of which is Elizabeth Traube’s Dreaming Identities, described in a jacket blurb by Nancy Armstrong (Brown University) as ‘a breakthrough book’. If Traube’s book indicates what this series will bring, readers can expect responsible, valuable scholarship in cultural studies, with few theoretical and stylistic surprises.
