TY - BOOK AU - Michael Bérubé (edited) TI - The aesthetics of cultural studies SN - 9780631223054 AV - MED BH301 .C92 A34 PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford PB - Blackwell Publishing Ltd. KW - Aesthetics KW - Culture N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Engaging the aesthetic / Michael Bérubé Role of aesthetics in cultural studies / Rita Felski On literature in cultural studies / John Frow Excessive practices: aesthetics, erotica, and cultural studies / Jane Juffer The burden of culture / Jonathan Sterne Cultural studies and questions of pleasure and value / David Shumway "I give it a 94. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it": valuing popular music / David Sanjek Cultural studies and new populism / Barry Faulk Beauty on my mind: reading literature in an age of cultural studies / Irene Kacandes Inventing culture (Behind the garage door) / Steven Rubio The cringe factor / Laura Kipnis N2 - "The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies is a collection of essays that analyze the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflect on its recuperation in the field. An international group of leading scholars write about aesthetics in terms of subcultural analysis, the question of judgment in contemporary popular culture, the history of US and UK cultural studies, and the current state of the field."--Jacket ER -