Guest Editor: Mandy Merck
Issue
52 of new formations reflects a renewed interest by cultural studies thinkers
in economics. An acknowledgment of the interrelation of culture and economy has
not always come easily to contemporary scholarship, despite its commitment to
interdisciplinarity, but there are some signs of new work that is beginning to
redress the balance. In this groundbreaking collection of essays, contributors
discuss the economics of porn, the new American imperialism, the law of copyright
as it relates to the moving image, the economic origins of American pastoral,
the death of the working-class hero in British culture, and the place of economics
in queer theory.
Anne Barron, Cora Kaplan, Stephen Maddison, Mandy Merck, Paul Smith, Boris Vejdovsky.
CONTENTS
Mandy Merck Editorial
Boris Vejdovsky Strange Fruit: the Violent
Beauty of the American Pastoral Now and Then
Paul Smith Imperialism
Redux?
Stephen Maddison From Porno-topia to Total Information Awareness,
or What Forces Really Govern Access to Porn
Anne Barron Commodification
and Cultural Form: Film Copyright Revisited
Mandy Merck Sexuality,
Subjectivity and … Economics?
Cora Kaplan The
Death of the Working Class Hero
REVIEWS
Ben Highmore
Emotion Pictures
Stuart Burrows Empire and Form
Stephen Shapiro
Thinking of England: Slavery and Sexuality
Desiree Henderson The Gains
of Loss
Susannah Radstone The Politics of Colonial Metamorphosis
A.R. Biressi Reality Makeover
BOOKNOTES
Mary Bryden, Yogita
Goyal, Alice Brittan
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