Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Postmodernism and Popular Culture brings together eleven recent essays by Angela McRobbie in a collection which deals with the issues which have dominated cultural studies over the last ten years.
A key theme is the notion of postmodernity as a space for social change and political potential. McRobbie explores everyday life as a site of immense social and psychic complexity to which she argues that cultural studies scholars must return through ethnic and empirical work; the sound of living voices and spoken language. She also argues for feminists working in the field to continue to question the place and meaning of feminist theory in a postmodern society. In addition, she examines the new youth cultures as images of social change and signs of profound social transformation.
Bringing together complex ideas about cultural studies today in a lively and accessible format, Angela McRobbie's new collection will be of immense value to all teachers and students of the subject.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. vi)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Part I Postmodernity and Cultural Studies (p. 11)
• 1 Postmodernism and Popular Culture (p. 13)
• 2 New Times in Cultural Studies (p. 24)
• 3 Post-Marxism and Cultural Studies (p. 44)
• 4 Feminism, Postmodernism and the 'Real Me' (p. 61)
• Part II Key Figures in Cultural Theory (p. 75)
• 5 The Modernist Style of Susan Sontag (p. 77)
• 6 The Passagenwerk and the Place of Walter Benjamin in Cultural Studies (p. 96)
• 7 Strategies of Vigilance: an Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (p. 121)
• Part III Youth, Media, Postmodernity (p. 133)
• 8 Second-Hand Dresses and the Role of the Ragmarket (p. 135)
• 9 Shut Up and Dance: Youth Culture and Changing Modes of Femininity (p. 155)
• 10 Different, Youthful, Subjectivities: Towards a Cultural Sociology of Youth (p. 177)
• 11 The Moral Panic in the Age of the Postmodern Mass Media (p. 198)
• Index (p. 220)