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This lively book will be essential to all those attempting to understand the state of Cultural Studies in the West today. Ion Davies, who was in at the birth of Cultural Studies in Britain and followed its development in many parts of the world, is uniquely qualified to add historical depth and comparative breadth to this subject. Introducing the central theoretical issues, as well as the key personalities, Cultural Studies and Beyond traces the origins, growth and diffusion of the subject

A historical overview of the trends & evolution of British Cultural Studies (BCS). It is argued that throughout the late 1960s & 1970s, BCS was marked by a strategy of political struggle from the Left. But, by the 1980s, BCS had become more culturalist & less Marxist, & was essentially institutionalized, internationalized, & depoliticized. It is argued that cultural studies on the Left became caught up in journal publication. The tragedy of BCS in the 1980s is that although it recognized the nuances of change, it did little more that become caught up in the processes it sought to criticize. 19 References. D. Dennis

The absence of discourse within the photographic genre is examined. Two collections of photographs by Canadian/Ukrainian artist John Paskievich are analyzed, with particular focus on semiological issues & the use of metaphor: (1) Waiting for the Ice Cream Man: A Prison Journal: Manitoba 1978 (Krotz, Larry [Ed], Winnipeg: Converse, 1978), a collage of essays, poems, prison reports, stories, & photographis of the experience of Stoney Mountain & other prisons in Manitoba; & (2) A Voiceless Song: Photographs of the Slavic Lands (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983). D. Generoli

The concepts of totalitarianism found in George Orwell's 1984 (London: Penguin, 1954) & Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon (Hurdy, Daphne [Tr], London: Penguin Books, 1947) are used to illustrate the post-1980 development of political theory & action in Central Europe. In each work the irrationality of a rational system, lack of control over processes within the system, & complicity in events occuring within the system are articulated. While Koestler's work is a personalized account, Orwell's work illustrates a potential future, one that the Central European intellectual considers when assessing political theory & action. 26 References. A. Cole