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The aesthetics of cultural studies

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005Description: viii, 208p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780631223054
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • MED BH301 .C92 A34
Contents:
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
Summary: "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
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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

"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

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