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050 _aMED BH301
_b.C92 A34
245 _aThe aesthetics of cultural studies
260 _aOxford
_bBlackwell Publishing Ltd.
_c2005
300 _aviii, 208p.
_e 24 cm.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aIntroduction: 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
520 _a"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
650 _aAesthetics.
650 _a Culture.
700 _aMichael Bérubé (edited)
942 _cBK
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