This lucid and concise introduction to cultural theory brings a much-needed sense of historical and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies. Each of the chapters in this third edition has been extensively revised to include entirely new material, on such topics as the new historicism, Zizek, Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Deleuze and Guattari, queer theory, Black and Latino cultural studies, posthumanism and the Sokal affair. There are also new chapters on 'Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory' and on 'Cultural Criticism and Cultural Policy'.
