By exploring the work of the Frankfurt school today, this book helps to define the very field of cultural studies.

An interdisciplinary reader exploring issues related to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.

Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.

Examines Lacan's key seminar on sexual difference, knowledge, desire, and love.

Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and theologian Ivan Illich.

Examines liberatory learning practices in the contemporary composition classroom.

Confronts the cultural challenges of globalization.

Explores the post-Enlightenment obsession with apocalyptic endings.

Shows how our cultural misconceptions about the body distort its capacities and lead to personal and social ills.

Embraces the leading edge in critical race theory.

Challenges the accepted model, and builds a politically sensitive notion of generosity.

Focuses on signifiers of cultural difference, such as sexuality, class, gender, and race, and how they are connected to theories of writing.

Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions.

A comprehensive look at film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.

Addresses the important role of remakes in film culture, from early cinema to contemporary Hollywood.

Critiques lingering manifestations of colonialism in contemporary Latin American scholarship.

Examines the political, social, and economic issues confronted by each of the newly independent republics in the Transcaucasus and Central Asian regions.

Traces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed.

Uses postcolonial theory to critique the globalization of gay culture.

Narratively explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.

Deconstructs the field of postcolonial studies.

A description and analysis of the Guyanese religion known as "Comfa. "

Examines travel narratives as a genre.

Examines the ways that the labels "disability" and "difference" are socially and culturally constructed.

Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.