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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