The Renewal of Cultural Studies

Paul Smith

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9781439902530
  9781439902523
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439902547
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

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?"

Table of contents

• 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