The most ambitious and broadly international collection on cultural studies ever published, this book is destined to shape research and teaching through the 1990s and beyond. It arrives at a time of high visibility for cultural studies but a time as well when cultural studies' long oppositional history is in danger--particularly in the United States-- of being taken up and assimilated into the ongoing, apolitical, academic enterprise. In an effort to disrupt this process, "Cultural Studies" interrogates the contemporary commitments of the field: its historical and intellectual positions, political and scholarly preoccupations, and the kinds of interventions it aims for now and in the future.
Featuring essays by such prominent cultural theorists as Tony Bennett, Homi Bhaba, 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. The topics addressed include race and minority discourses; ethnicity and postcolonialism; postmodernism; feminism; cultural policy; the place of history in cultural studies; the politics of representation; popular culture; aesthetics; ethics; and technology. At the same time "Cultural Studies" explores the cultural work performed by such diverse forms of cultural production as rock music, Chicano art, detective novels, African-American writing, the AIDS epidemic, architecture, reproductive freedom, "sati" Star Trek fandom, and New Age technology. Numerous contributors interrogate their own theoretical and methodologicalcommitments, examining the place of representation, narrative, identity, language, and textual criticism in their work.
"Cultural Studies" demonstrates that while the discipline remains fluid and even postdisciplinary, and while many of its practices remain academically marginaliz

Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler areall well known for their extensive publications on modernculture.

1: Cultural Studies; 2: Putting Policy into Cultural Studies; 3: Angels Dancing; 4: Postcolonial Authority and Postmodern Guilt; 5: Engaging with the Popular; 6: I Throw Punches for My Race, but I Don't Want to Be a Man; 7: Traveling Cultures; 8: Portraits of People with AIDS; 9: What is Real and What is Not; 10: Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life; 11: The Cultural Study of Popular Music; 12: Cultural Studies and Ethnic Absolutism 1; 13: Resisting Difference; 14: Guns in the House of Culture?; 15: AIDS, Keywords, and Cultural Work; 16: Missionary Stories; 17: Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies; 18: The Promises of Monsters; 19: Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination; 20: Aesthetics and Cultural Studies; 21: (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust; 22: Cultural Theory, Colonial Texts; 23: Body Narratives, Body Boundaries; 24: ¿1968¿; 25: ¿On the Beach¿; 26: Feminism Psychoanalysis, and the Study of Popular Culture; 27: Technologizing the Self; 28: Mail-Order Culture and Its Critics; 29: New Age Technoculture; 30: The Pachuco's Flayed Hide; 31: Ethics and Cultural Studies; 32: Shakespeare, the Individual, and the Text 1; 33: Culture, Cultural Studies, and the Historians; 34: Bandits, Heroes, the Honest, and the Misled; 35: ¿It Works for Me¿; 36: Negative Images; 37: Spectacular Action; 38: The Postmodern Crisis of the Black Intellectuals; 39: Excess and Inhibition; 40: Post-Marxism and Cultural Studies