New Consensus For Old: Cultural Studies From Left To Right

Synopsis

Thomas Frank has been sending wake-up calls to just about everyone within reach over the past decade, in venues from The Village Voice to Harper's . His takes on labour politics, advertising, the virtues of the Midwest and how uncool you really are have won him a wide audience. In this piece, Frank gives us a reading of cultural studies - viewed by some as an important new perspective in the academy, but by others as an unwieldy theoretical fad.