'The book begins with one of the clearest and most interesting introductions to the postmodern terrain I have seen, followed by analysis of `postmodern social theory'... an interesting and illuminating treatment of movies and an insightful critique of the work of Baudrillard, Lyotard and Jameson' - Discourse & Society

PART ONE: THE POSTMODERN
Defining the Postmodern Terrain
Postmodern Social Theory Takes on the Postmodern
Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Jameson
Learning from Mills
PART TWO: LEARNING FROM CINEMA
Wild About Lynch
Blue Velvet
Nouveau Capitalists on Wall Street
Crimes and Misdemeanors in Manhattan
The Postmodern Sexual Order
Sex, Lies, and Yuppie Love
Do the Right Thing
Race in the USA
Paris, Texas
Mills and Baudrillard in America
In Conclusion
The Eye of the Postmodern

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world's foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.