Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-467) and index.

Introduction / Simon During -- The culture industry : enlightenment as mass deception / Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- Dominici, or the triumph of literature / Roland Barthes -- On collecting art and culture / James Clifford -- Upping the anti [sic] in feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis -- Encoding, decoding / Stuart Hall -- After objectivism / Renato Rosaldo -- Negetive images: towards a black femenist cultural criticism / Michele Wallace -- History: geography: modernity / Edward Soja -- Walking in the city / Michel de Certeau -- Space, power and knowledge / Michel Foucault -- Defining the postmodern / Jean-François Lyotard -- National-popular: geneology of a concept / David Forgacs -- Questions of multiculturalism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Sneja Gunew -- The new cultural politics of difference / Cornel West -- The popularity of pornography / Andrew Ross -- Axiomatic / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Entertainment and utopia / Richard Dyer -- Bourgeois hysteria and the carnivalesque / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Things to do with shopping centres / Meaghan Morris -- Advertising: the magic system / Raymond Williams -- How can one be a sports fan? / Pierre Bourdieu -- From culture to hegemony / Dick Hebdige -- Characterizing rock music culture: the case of heavy metal / Will Straw -- Listening otherwise, music miniaturized: a different type of question about revolution / Rey Chow -- Dallas and the ideology of mass culture / Ien Ang -- International image markets / Armand Mattelart, Xavier Delcourt and Michèle Mattelart -- The institutional matrix of romance / Janice Radway.