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Baughmanand assistance from John Macgregor Wise  \nPREFACE·  \ngram for the Study of Religion,School of Music,Unit for Cinema Studies,and theWomen's Studies Program.A grant from Ilinois State University covered registrationfees for their students and faculty.The Australian Film Commission and the Institutefor Policy Studies(Grifich University)helped cover travel expenses from Australia.Finally,we would like to thank several other people for their assistance:Tony BennettDavid Colley,Charles Harris,Edward Sullivan.And we should point out that this bookcould not have made it into print so eficiently without the support of William Germanoat Routledge.  \n1  \nCultural Studies:An Introduction  \nCARY NELSON,PAULA A.TREICHLER,ANDLAWRENCE GROSSBERG  \nThe field of cultural studies is experiencing,as Meaghan Morris puts it,an unprecedentedinternational boom.It remains to be secn how long this boom will last and what impactit will have on intellectual life.Certainly,within the fragmented institutional config-uration of the academic left,cultural studies holds special intellectual promise becauseit explicicly attempts to cut across diverse social and political interests and address manyof the struggles within the current scene.As Lata Mani notes in her essay in this volume,in its utopian moments cultural studics sometines imagines “a location where the newpolitics of difference-racial,sexual,cultural,transnational-can combine and be artic-ulated in all their dazzling plurality.\"At the same time,it is undoubtedly cultural studies'material and economic promise that contributes,as much as its intellectual achievement,to its current vogue.In the United States,where the boom is especially strong,manyacademic institutions-presses,journals,hiring committees,conferences,university cur-ricula-have created significant investment opportunities in cultural studies,sometimesin ignorance of its history,its practitioners,its relation to traditional disciplines,and itslife outside the academy.  \nThe present book is partly occasioned by this explosion of interest in culturalstudies.It seeks to identify the dimensions of cultural studies and its varied effects,todiscuss cultural studies in relation to its intellectual history,its varying definitions,itscurent afiliations and affinities and diverse objects of study,and its possible futures.Here we introduce the field of cultural studies,describe the goals of the book,and offera \"user's guide\"to the essays it includes.The section divisions in the user's guidcthemselves provide a rough map not only of che overlapping subject matter of che bookbut also of the major categories of current work in cultural studies:the history of culturalstudies,gender and sexuality,narionhood and national identicy,colonialism and post-colonialism,race and ethnicity,popular culture and its audicnces,science and ecology,identity politics,pedagogy,the politics of acsthetics,cultural institutions,the politicsof disciplinarity,discourse and textuality,history,and global culture in a postmodernage.But cultural studies can only partially and uneasily be identified by such dorainsof interest,since no list can constrain the topics cultural studies may address in the future.  \nOne way to understand cultural studies is to employ the traditional strategies bywhich disciplines stake out their territories and theoretical paradigns mark their dif-ference:by claiming a particular domain of objects,by developing a uniquc set ofmethodological practices,and by carrying forward a founding tradition and lexicon.Inche following pagcs,we will suggest how domain,method,and intellectual legacy helpus further understand cultural studies.Yet none of these elements makes cultural studiesinto a traditional discipline.Indeed,cultural studies is not merely interdisciplinary;it is  \n1  \nINTRODUCTION  \noften,as others have writen,acively and agressively a","cbCaifcqH1mqOVOb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifcqH1mqOVOb","pdf",973843,11,"English","# 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