Böcker av Lawrence Grossberg

A cultural analysis of anxiety, alienation and narcissism in America.

Reveals how the US has changed from a society that celebrates childhood into one that is afraid of its own children.

One of the leading figures in cultural studies offers a powerful critique of the present state of the field and, more broadly, of the intellectual left, especially in the Anglo-American academy.

As one of the founding figures of cultural studies, the author was a participant in the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' project, one which sought to develop a practice adequate to the complexities of contemporary culture. This book charts his intellectual and theoretical developments from his time at Birmingham till date.

Includes essays that offer a sophisticated view of the growing power of popular culture and its increasing inseparability from contemporary structures of economic and political power and from our everyday lives. This title reveals the ways in which popular culture is being mobilised in the service of economic and political struggles.

Bringing together cultural, political and economic analyses, Grossberg offers an interpretation of the contemporary politics of both rock and popular culture.

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cultural Studies is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts.

Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.