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Cultural Studies Review

Panic

Vol. 14, No. 2

John Frow & Katrina Schlunke (eds.)

Cultural Studies Review 14.2 is a special issue focusing on cultures of panic, particularly recent examples of moral panic arising from issues of race, gender and sexuality.

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The September 2008 Cultural Studies Review is a special issue focusing on cultures of panic, particularly recent examples of moral panic arising from issues of race, gender and sexuality. The diverse essays deal with 'men of Middle Eastern appearance', the trial of Private Kovko, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the use of RitalinË, concerns around children and sexuality in Australia, and arts funding in the United States during the 'culture wars'.

Table of Contents

Editorial-JOHN FROW & KATRINA SCHLUNKE

Panic
-Co-editors CRISTYN DAVIES & ROBERT PAYNE

Introduction: Cultures of Panic
-CRISTYN DAVIES & ROBERT PAYNE

The Face of Evil: Demonising the Arab Other in Contemporary Australia
-GREG NOBLE

'Skylarking': Homosexual Panic and the Death of Private Kovco
-ROBERT PAYNE

Biotypologies of Terrorism
-JOSEPH PUGLIESE

'New Ways to Frame the Mammoth Horror': Media First Responders and the Katrina Event
-SARA KNOX

Proliferating Panic: Regulating Representations of Sex and Gender during the Culture Wars
-CRISTYN DAVIES

Ritalin®: Panic in the USA
-TOBY MILLER

In the Name of 'Childhood Innocence': A Discursive Exploration of the Moral Panic Associated with Childhood and Sexuality
-KERRY H. ROBINSON

Panic! Affect Contagion, Mimesis and Suggestion in the Social Field
-ANNA GIBBS

Essays
Beyond Savagery: The Limits of Australian 'Aboriginalism'
-KAY ANDERSON & COLIN PERRIN

White Free Speech: The Fraser Event and its Enlightenment Legacies
-GOLDIE OSURI

(Re)visiting the Corporate World: The Matrix Evolution-ROSE MICHAEL

Reviews
JANE SIMON on Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia

JOHN FROW on Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero

ANDREA MERRETT on Domesticity at War

LISA McDONALD on The Politics of Imagination: Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge

LISA FARRANCE on Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies

BARBARA BLOCH on Keywords to War: Reviving Language in an Age of Terror

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