Cultural Politics: Volume 1 Issue 2

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Edited by John Armitage and Douglas Kellner

Berg Publishers

Due/Published July 2005, 128 pages, paper

ISBN 1845202112

"Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. Topics will include: representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; patriarchy, feminism and gender studies; postcolonialism; political activism, and much more.

Contents

The Conservation Assault on America: Cultural Politics, Education and the New Authorisation -- Henry A. Giroux

The New Face of Global Hollywood: Black Hawk Down and the Politics of Meta-Sovereignty -- Debbie Lisle and Andrew Pepper

Distribution and Media Flows -- Sean Cubitt

Luck, Power, Corruption, Democracy? Judging Arts Prizes -- John Street

 Field Report

Breaking the Surface -- Joanna Griffin

 Book Reviews

The Allures and Deceptions of Democracy -- Ryan Bishop

Good Intentions -- Alan Sinfield