This title presents an original and innovative approach to the field of cultural studies in the form of a series of interviews with leading cultural theorists from across the globe. The result is a useful introduction to the key ideas in the field, the strengths and problematic weaknesses of cultural studies as a discipline, allowing the reader to chart its development and to identify emerging trends. The book should prove useful to students of cultural studies and the interdisciplinary arts and humanities, and should also interest teachers and researchers working within a wide range of areas of cultural studies.

This collection juxtaposes some of the most interesting and challenging thinkers from in and around (both for and against) cultural studies, all of whom address some of the most central, crucial, enlivening and vexed questions of this controversial subject, in ways that are novel, innovative, and sure to be of interest and importance to both students and researchers working within the interdisciplinary arts and humanities. The contributors are: Catherine Belsey, Mieke Bal, Martin McQuillan, Simon Critchley, Chris Norris, Adrian Rifkin, Griselda Pollock, Jeremy Gilbert, Julian Wolfreys, John Mowitt, Jeremy Valentine, Steven Connor, Thomas Docherty, and Lynette Hunter.