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.

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