Cultural Studies -- Books Received

The titles below represent a partial list of books received by the journal and currently available for review. If you're interested in reviewing a particular book for the journal (whether listed below or not), please consult the journal's style sheet for reviews and then contact Gil Rodman with your request.

[last update: 12 Feb 2008]

• Acland, Charles, ed. 2007. Residual media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Allatson, Paul. 2007. Key terms in Latino/a cultural studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell.


• Awkward, Michael. 2007. Soul covers: Rhythm and blues remakes and the struggle for artistic identity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


• Banet-Weiser, Sarah. 2007. Kids rule!: Nickelodeon and consumer citizenship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


• Beebe, Roger, & Middleton, Jason, eds. 2007. Medium cool: Music videos from soundies to cellphones. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


• Bennett, Tony. 2007. Critical trajectories: Culture, society, intellectuals. Malden, MA: Blackwell.


• Curtin, Michael. 2007. Playing to the world's biggest audience: The globalization of Chinese film and tv. Berkeley: University of California Press.


• Dawson, Ashley. 2007. Exceptional state: Contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


• Deuze, Mark. 2007. Media work. Cambridge: Polity.


• Ferris, Suzanne & Young, Mallory, eds. 2008. Chick flicks: Contemporary women at the movies. New York: Routledge.


• Gill, Rosalind. 2007. Gender and the media. Cambridge: Polity.


• Gillman, Susan, & Weinbaum, Alys Eve, eds. 2007. Next to the color line: Gender, sexuality, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Hafez, Kai. 2007. The myth of media globalization. Cambridge: Polity.


• Hartley, John. 2008. Television truths. Malden, MA: Blackwell.


• Hilmes, Michele, ed. 2007. NBC: America's network. Berkeley: University of California Press.


• Hulsether, Mark. 2007. Religion, culture and politics in the twentieth-century United States. New York: Columbia University Press.


• Jameson, Fredric. 2007. Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on cultural Marxism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


• Jenkins, Henry. 2007. The wow climax: Tracing the emotional impact of popular culture. New York: New York University Press.


• Jenneman, David. 2007. Adorno in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Krishnaswamy, Revathi & Hawley, John C., eds. 2008. The postcolonial and the global. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Lash, Scott & Lury, Celia. 2007. Global culture industry. Cambridge: Polity.


• Levine, Elana. 2007. Wallowing in sex: The new sexual culture of 1970s American television. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


• Lipsitz, George. 2007. Footsteps in the dark: The hidden histories of popular music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Marran, Christine L. 2007. Poison woman: Figuring female transgression in modern Japanese culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Mavor, Carol. 2008. Reading boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


• Mohanram, Radhika. 2007. Imperial white: Race, diaspora, and the British empire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Ouellette, Laurie & Hay, James. 2007. Better living through reality TV. Malden, MA: Blackwell.


• Patton, Cindy. 2007. Cinematic identity: Anatomy of a problem film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Saldanha, Arun. 2007. Psychedelic white: Goa trance and the viscosity of race. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Shukla, Sandhya & Tinsman, Heidi, eds. 2007. Imagining our Americas: Toward a transnational frame. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


• Silva, Denise Ferreira da. 2007. Toward a global idea of race. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Silverstone, Roger. 2007. Media and morality: On the rise of the mediapolis. Cambridge: Polity.


• Slack, Jennifer Daryl & Wise, J. Macgregor. 2007. Culture and technology: A primer. New York: Peter Lang.


• Smith, Paul. 2007. Primitive America: The ideology of capitalist democracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.


• Stivale, Charles J. 2008. Gilles Deleuze's ABCs: The folds of friendship. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.


• Sturken, Marita. 2007. Tourists of history: Memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


• Tremayne, Mark, ed. 2007. Blogging, citizenship, and the future of media. London and New York: Routledge.


• Wald, Priscilla. 2008. Contagious: Cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.