Table of Contents

PART ONE: FORMING CULTURE/INFORMING CULTURAL THEORY
Contemporary Culture, Cultural Studies and the Global Mediasphere
Social Theory and the Foundations of Cultural Studies
Marxism and the Formation of Cultural Ideology
From British Cultural Studies to International Cultural Studies
Language and Culture
From Structuralism to Poststructuralism
PART TWO: CULTURAL LOCATIONS
Feminism
From Femininity to Fragmentation
Postmodernism and Beyond
Popular Consumption and Youth Culture
The Body
Globalization and Global Spaces
Local Transformations
New Media Cultures
Global Terror and the New Language Wars

About the Author

Jeff Lewis is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, and Senior Research Fellow at the Globalism Institute, both at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is also the author of Language Wars (Pluto Books, 2005) and has had articles published in Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of the Humanities and International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Reviews

Praise for the 1st edition: ′To say that the scope of the book′s coverage is wide-ranging would be an under-statement. Few texts come to mind that have attempted such a thorough overview of the central tenets of cultural studies′ - Stuart Allan, UWE