New Cultural Studies: Adventures in TheoryClare Birchall, Gary Hall University of Georgia Press, 2006 M01 1 - 324 pages New Cultural Studies is both an introductory reference work and an original study which explores new directions and territories for cultural studies. A new generation has begun to emerge from the shadow of the Birmingham School. It is a generation whose whole education has been shaped by theory, and who frequently turn to it as a means to think through some of the issues and current problems in contemporary culture and cultural studies. In a period when departments which were once hotbeds of "high theory" are returning to more sociological and social science oriented modes of research, and 9/11 and the war in Iraq especially have helped create a sense of "post-theoretical" political urgency which leaves little time for the "elitist," "Eurocentric," "textual" concerns of "Theory," theoretical approaches to the study of culture have, for many of this generation, never seemed so important or so vital. New Cultural Studies explores theory's past, present, and most especially future role in cultural studies. It does so by providing an authoritative and accessible guide, for students and teachers alike, to:
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Contents
New Cultural Studies Adventures in Theory Some Comments Clarifications Explanations Observations Recommendations Remarks Statements and Su... | 1 |
New Adventures in Theory | 29 |
Cultural Studies and Deconstruction | 31 |
Cultural Studies and PostMarxism | 54 |
Cultural Studies and Ethics | 71 |
Cultural Studies and German Media Theory | 88 |
New Theorists | 105 |
Cultural Studies and Gilles Deleuze | 107 |
Cultural Studies and the Transnational | 200 |
Cultural Studies and New Media | 220 |
New Adventures in Cultural Studies | 239 |
Cultural Studies and Rem Koolhaas Project on the City | 241 |
Cultural Studies and the Posthumanities | 260 |
Cultural Studies and the Extreme | 274 |
Cultural Studies and the Secret | 293 |
Free with Every Copy of this Book | 311 |
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