CULTURAL STUDIES is a new and increasingly influential field of scholarly inquiry, emerging in the second half of the twentieth century. Broadly speaking, it takes as its purview the production and circulation of meanings. Its objects of study include cultural practices of all kinds—mass media representations, consumer culture, literary texts, objects of industrial production, practices of performance and display, oppositional subcultures, and aspects of everyday life in both the present and the past.

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Dina Copelman, Acting Director
Roger Lancaster, Director,
Cultural Studies Program
George Mason University , MSN 5E4, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

Phone: (703) 993-2851
Fax: (703) 993-2852
E-mail: cultural@gmu.edu

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