This thread presents a different agenda for studying culture and the culture industries in particular, one that is grounded in a distinctly cultural studies materialist reflexivity. Cultural studies is probably best understood as the politically committed, theoretically grounded, and radically self-reflexive and historical-materialist analysis of cultural processes and practices, where the commitment to imagine a humane, socialist society has always been a guiding assumption in the field from its early formations in post-war Britain.
Articles by Toby Miller
\Toby Miller is Distinguished Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author and editor of over 30 volumes, and has published essays in well over 100 journals and books. His most recent publications include Television Studies: The Basics (2010), The Contemporary Hollywood Reader (2009), and Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention (2008).\