Dani Cavallaro is a researcher at the University of Westminster and author of Cyberpunk and Cyberculture, Art for Beginners, The Body for Beginners and Kristeva for Beginners

"Clear, lively and succinct, Critical and Cultural Theory introduces the student to the central theories and theorists of contemporary culture. Short, accessible chapters, with hypertext links throughout, allow the reader to follow their own route through the ideas and themes. An ideal text." David Bell, Cultural Studies, Staffordshire University, UK "Written in jargon-free, lucid prose, Critical and Cultural Theory will be indispensable reading for students who need a comprehensible but nonetheless sophisticated introduction to the most important concepts and debates that have shaped Anglo-American intellectual life in the Humanities." Daniel Horowitz, American Studies, Smith College, USA"

• MEANING - IDEOLOGY - THE MIND - THE SIGN - SUBJECTIVITY - THE AESTHETIC - RHETORIC - THE BODY - SPACE - REPRESENTATION - GENDER & SEXUALITY - TIME - READING - THE OTHER - THE MACHINE - TEXTUALITY - THE GAZE - THE SIMULACRUM