Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Vol. 7

Now combined in a new series with The Year's Work in English Studies, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, edited by Kate McGowan, is an annual narrative bibliography which aims to provide a comprehensive collection of theoretical essays with bibliographies for work published in a given year. Like its sister volume, YWES 78, YWCCT 7 covers work published in 1997.YWCCT 7 reviews over three hundred titles in nineteen chapters divided in two parts. Part I: Critical Theory provides a general introductory chapter, followed by coverage of: Semiotics; Psychoanalysis; Feminisms; Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory; Historicism; Queer Theories / Cultures; and Marxism(s) and Post-Marxism(s). Part II: Culture and Communications offers a general introductory survey of Cultural Studies, with subsequent chapters on: Media Studies; Popular Culture; Australian Popular Culture and Media Studies; Popular Music; Virtual Cultures; Film Theory; Art Histories and Visual Culture Studies; Cultural Policy; Aboriginal Identity; Culture and Art; and Multiculturalism.McGowan, Kate is the author of 'Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Vol. 7' with ISBN 9780631219309 and ISBN 0631219307.