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.
...the publication of Cultural Studies is an event no serious (or curious) reader can afford to ignore. Make no mistake: in American intellectual life, the undisciplines of cultural studies will very likely be the single most controversial and contested terrain of the 1990s, and Cultural Studies the most capacious text in the fray. -- VLS
If you plan to continue living in America, read this book. -- VLS
It's here. It's big. It's the Next Thing...You've gotta have it. -- VLS
Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler areall well known for their extensive publications on modernculture.