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Informationen zum Autor Gilbert B. Rodman is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. His publications include Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend (1996)! Race in Cyberspace (2000)! and The Race and Media Reader (2014). He is currently the Chair of the Association for Cultural Studies! and the founder/manager of CULTSTUD-L! the longest running international cultural studies listserv in the world. Klappentext Why Cultural Studies? is a rallying call for a reinvigoration of the project of cultural studies that provides a critical analysis of its meteoric rise to the academic fore and makes a convincing argument for the pressing need for a renewed investment in! and re-evaluation of! its core ideals.* Rodman argues that there are valuable lessons we can learn from cultural studies' past that have the potential to lead cultural studies to an invigorated and viable future* Makes the claim that cultural studies isn't - and shouldn't be - solely an academic subject! but open to both academics and non-academics alike* Asserts that now more than ever cultural studies has a productive role to play in promoting social justice and building a better world* Written by one of the leading figures in the area of cultural studies! and the current Chair of the Association for Cultural Studies Zusammenfassung Why Cultural Studies? is a rallying call for a reinvigoration of the project of cultural studies that provides a critical analysis of its meteoric rise to the academic fore and makes a convincing argument for the pressing need for a renewed investment in! and re-evaluation of! its core ideals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface viiAcknowledgments xviii1 Cultural Studies: What's the Point? 12 Cultural Studies: What It Is 353 Cultural Studies: What's Wrong 674 Cultural Studies: What It Was 1205 Cultural Studies: What Next? 158Index 199