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Book SynopsisA collective manifesto for the future of cultural studies
Trade Review"Paul Smith is one of the foremost practitioners of cultural studies. Here he has gathered people together to go beyond the old question--What is cultural studies?' The outcome is a bold intervention into the human sciences that offers a radical rethinking of where we stand today." -Toby Miller, author of Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention
Table of Contents1. Introduction * Paul Smith 2. The Project of Cultural Studies: Heretical Doubts, New Horizon * Nick Couldry 3. The Nightmare Voice of Feminism: Feminism and Cultural Studies * Carol A. Stabile 4. Cultural Studies: Always Already Disciplinary * Randall K. Cohn, Sara Regina Mitcho and John M. Woolsey 5. From Ideology Critique to Intellectuality: Towards a Neo-Gramscian Political Pedagogy for Cultural Studies * Henry Krips 6. Attack of the Fifty-Foot Anthology! Adventures in Teaching Cultural Studies * Julie Rak 7. The Literary: Cultural Capital and the Specter of Elitism * Denise Albanese 8. New Aestheticism, the Culture Industry, and the Postcolonial Novel * Deepika Bahri 9. Cultural Studies and Theory: Once More from the Top with Feeling * Clare Birchall and Gary Hall 10. Cultural Studies and the Discourse of New Media * David Golumbia 11. Lost Objects: The Museum of Cinema * Sharon Willis 12. Three Dialectics for Media Studies * Matthew Tinkcom 13. What Cultural Studies Did to Anthropological Ethnography: From Baroque Textual Aesthetics Back to the Design of the Scenes of Inquiry * George E. Marcus 14. Longing for the Ethnographic * Lisa Breglia 15. "So-Called Cultural Histories": Cultural Studies and History in the Age of One World * Michael Denning 16. A Marxist Methodology for Cultural Studies: Analyzing (Over)Production of the Commodity Sign * Max Gulias 17. Marxism after Cultural Studies * Randy Martin 18. Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically * Grant Farred 19. Toward a Vulgar Cultural Studies * Eric Cazdyn 20. Where Is the "Economy"? Cultural Studies and Narratives of Capitalism * S. Charusheela 21. Cultural Studies and "Latin America": Reframing the Questions * Sophia A. McClennen 22. Cultural Studies to Come * Mahmut Mutman 23. Do the Math: Cultural Studies into Public Policy Needs a New Equation * Marcus Breen 24. Culture and War * Timothy W. Luke 25. Communication and Cultural Labor * Vincent Mosco 26. Towards a Green Marxist Cultural Studies: Notes on Labor, Nature, and the Historical Specificity of Capitalism * Michelle Yates 27. Cultural Studies: A Conversation * Andrew Ross and Paul Smith Contributors Index
