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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?”Content1. Introduction • Paul Smith2. The Project of Cultural Studies: Heretical Doubts, New Horizon • Nick Couldry3. The Nightmare Voice of Feminism: Feminism and Cultural Studies • Carol A. Stabile4. Cultural Studies: Always Already Disciplinary • Randall K. Cohn, Sara Regina Mitcho and John M. Woolsey5. From Ideology Critique to Intellectuality: Towards a Neo-Gramscian Political Pedagogy for Cultural Studies • Henry Krips6. Attack of the Fifty-Foot Anthology! Adventures in Teaching Cultural Studies • Julie Rak7. The Literary: Cultural Capital and the Specter of Elitism • Denise Albanese8. New Aestheticism, the Culture Industry, and the Postcolonial Novel • Deepika Bahri9. Cultural Studies and Theory: Once More from the Top with Feeling • Clare Birchall and Gary Hall10. Cultural Studies and the Discourse of New Media • David Golumbia11. Lost Objects: The Museum of Cinema • Sharon Willis12. Three Dialectics for Media Studies • Matthew Tinkcom13. What Cultural Studies Did to Anthropological Ethnography: From Baroque Textual Aesthetics Back to the Design of the Scenes of Inquiry • George E. Marcus14. Longing for the Ethnographic • Lisa Breglia15. “So-Called Cultural Histories”: Cultural Studies and History in the Age of One World • Michael Denning16. A Marxist Methodology for Cultural Studies: Analyzing (Over)Production of the Commodity Sign • Max Gulias17. Marxism after Cultural Studies • Randy Martin18. Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically • Grant Farred19. Toward a Vulgar Cultural Studies • Eric Cazdyn20. Where Is the "Economy"? Cultural Studies and Narratives of Capitalism • S. Charusheela21. Cultural Studies and “Latin America”: Reframing the Questions • Sophia A. McClennen22. Cultural Studies to Come • Mahmut Mutman23. Do the Math: Cultural Studies into Public Policy Needs a New Equation • Marcus Breen24. Culture and War • Timothy W. Luke25. Communication and Cultural Labor • Vincent Mosco26. Towards a Green Marxist Cultural Studies: Notes on Labor, Nature, and the Historical Specificity of Capitalism • Michelle Yates27. Cultural Studies: A Conversation • Andrew Ross and Paul SmithContributorsIndexMore information : http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2088_reg.html