The Year´s Work 1995 Critical and Cultural Theory 5 - Year´s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

Now combined in a new series with the 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 76, YWCCT 5 covers work published in 1995.

YWCCT 5 reviews over three hundred titles in twenty-one chapters, divided into two parts: Part One: Critical Theory, provides a general introductory chapter, followed by coverage of: Semiotics; Intertextuality; Psychoanalysis; Deconstruction; Feminism; Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory; Historicism; Queer Theories/Cultures; and Postmodernism. Part Two: Culture and Communications, offers a general introductory survey of Cultural Studies, with subsequent chapters on: Popular Culture; Australian Popular Culture and Media Studies; Popular Music; Virtual Cultures; Film; Science, Technology and Culture; Cultural Policy; Law and Culture; Aboriginal Identity, Culture and Art; and Australian Pacific Culture and Theory.