The renewal of cultural studies / edited by Paul Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Paul, 1954 November 23-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Culture--Research.

Physical Description:

viii, 266 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cultural Studies, once a burgeoning academic field, developed into a discipline in which just about any cultural text, object or event could be studied.  The Renewal of Cultural Studies  offers a panoramic view of the field, its assumptions, and its methodologies. Editor Paul Smith and thirty contributors map out new directions that will redefine and sustain the field of cultural studies. In twenty-seven original essays, cultural studies is examined in relation to other disciplines-history, anthropology, literature, media, and American studies. The discipline is reviewed in the context of globalization, in relation to topics such as war, public policy, and labor, its pedagogy and politics, and in Marxist, feminist, and environmentalist contexts. Smith wants to establish theoretical and methodological common ground among cultural studies scholars. Providing a "state of the discipline, "  The Renewal of Cultural Studies  asks, "What can and should the field of Cultural Studies be doing now?"

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The Project of Cultural Studies: Heretical Doubts, New Horizons

3. The Nightmare Voice of Feminism: Feminism and Cultural Studies

4. Cultural Studies: Always Already Disciplinary

5. From Ideology Critique to Intellectuality: Toward a Neo-Gramscian Political Pedagogy for Cultural Studies

6. Attack of the Fifty-Foot Anthology! Adventures in Teaching Cultural Studies

7. The Literary: Cultural Capital and the Specter of Elitism

8. New Aestheticism, the Culture Industry, and the Postcolonial Novel

9. Cultural Studies and Theory: Once More from the Top with Feeling

10. Cultural Studies and the Discourse of New Media

11. Lost Objects: The Museum of Cinema

12. Three Dialectics for Media Studies

13. What Cultural Studies Did to Anthropological Ethnography: From Baroque Textual Aesthetics Back to the Design of the Scenes of Inquiry

14. Longing for the Ethnographic

15. "So-Called Cultural Histories": Cultural Studies and History in the Age of One World

16. A Marxist Methodology for Cultural Studies: Analyzing (Over)Production of the Commodity Sign

17. Marxism after Cultural Studies

18. Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically

19. Toward a Vulgar Cultural Studies

20. Where Is the "Economy"? : Cultural Studies and Narratives of Capitalism

21. Cultural Studies and "Latin America": Reframing the Questions

22. Cultural Studies to Come

23. Do the Math: Cultural Studies into Public Policy Needs a New Equation

24. Culture and War

25. Communication and Cultural Labor

26. Toward a Green Marxist Cultural Studies: Notes on Labor, Nature, and the Historical Specificity of Capitalism

27. Cultural Studies: A Conversation

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613196330

9781283196338

1283196336

9781439902547

1439902542

OCLC:

966821612