BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- IN THE YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY -- REFERENCES -- Part I POSTMODERNITY AND CULTURAL STUDIES -- 1 POSTMODERNISM AND POPULAR CULTURE -- THE 'SOWETO DASH' -- IMPLOSION -- REFERENCES -- 2 NEW TIMES IN CULTURAL STUDIES -- TWO PROBLEMS WITH POSTMODERNISM -- SOME DOUBTS ABOUT NEW TIMES -- NEW TIMES, WORK AND LEISURE: MORT AND GORZ -- FORWARD TO THE FUTURE -- NOTES -- 3 POST-MARXISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES -- CONTINGENCY, HISTORICITY AND IDENTITY -- GHOSTS, AIDS AND MOBY DICK -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 4 FEMINISM, POSTMODERNISM AND THE 'REAL ME' -- POSTMODERNISTS: GUILTY OF PLAYING WITH POLITICS -- FINDING THE 'REAL ME' -- CRITICAL EMBRACE: MODERNITY AND ITS CRITIQUE -- STUART HALL: WORKING IN A WORLD OF SHIFTING BOUNDARIES -- TOWARDS A FEMINIST POSTMODERNISM -- UNMASKING THE 'REAL ME' -- REFERENCES -- Part II KEY FIGURES IN CULTURAL THEORY -- 5 THE MODERNIST STYLE OF SUSAN SONTAG -- SITUATING SONTAG -- AGAINST INTERPRETATION/STYLES OF RADICAL WILL -- UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN -- ON PHOTOGRAPHY -- ILLNESS/AIDS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 6 THE PASSAGENWERK AND THE PLACE OF WALTER BENJAMIN IN CULTURAL STUDIES -- THE PASSAGENWERK AND THE DIALECTICS OF SEEING -- REFERENCES -- 7 STRATEGIES OF VIGILANCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK -- NOTES -- Part III YOUTH, MEDIA, POSTMODERNITY -- 8 SECOND-HAND DRESSES AND THE ROLE OF THE RAGMARKET -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ROLE OF THE RAGMARKET -- SUBCULTURAL ENTREPRENEURS -- BABY DRESSES AND GIRLS IN MEN'S SUITS -- THE DEATH OF THE DESIGNER -- NOTES -- 9 SHUT UP AND DANCE: YOUTH CULTURE AND CHANGING MODES OF FEMININITY -- GIRLS, CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND YOUTH CULTURE -- CODING THE FEMININE IN THE 1990s -- RAVE, GENDER AND CULTURAL STUDIES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

10 DIFFERENT, YOUTHFUL, SUBJECTIVITIES: TOWARDS A CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF YOUTH -- INTERACTIVE CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY -- INTER-ETHNIC FRIENDSHIP -- WHO GOES OUT WITH WHOM? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 11 THE MORAL PANIC IN THE AGE OF THE POSTMODERN MASS MEDIA -- NEW JUVENILE CRIME -- THE WORK OF STAN COHEN AND JOCK YOUNG -- HOOLIGANS, HISTORY AND HEGEMONY -- SEXUAL MORAL PANICS -- MORAL PANICS AND THE POSTMODERN MEDIA -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.