Michael Denning

Online Lectures

“Neither Capitalist Nor American: The Democracy as Social

Movement.” DeVane Tercentennial Lecture. Yale University.

February 13, 2001.

Essays

“The Novelists’ International.” In Franco Moretti, ed., The Novel

Volume One: History, Geography, and Culture. Princeton: Princeton

University Press, 2006.

“Neither Capitalist Nor American: The Democracy as Social

Movement.” In Jedediah Purdy, ed., Democratic Vistas: Reflections on

the Life of American Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press,

2004. Reprinted in Amy Schrager Lang and Cecelia Tichi, eds., What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle

World. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

“Work and Culture in American Studies.” In Donald Pease and Robyn Wiegand, eds., The Futures of American Studies. Durham: Duke

University Press, 2002.

"Globalization in cultural studies: process and epoch," European

Journal of Cultural Studies 4(3): 351-364 (2001).

“What’s Wrong with Cultural Studies.” Politics and Culture (2001:

Issue 1).

“The Figure of the Dime Novel in American Culture,” from Mechanic

Accents. Reprinted in Jim Cullen, ed., Popular Culture in America.

Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

“From Sinatra to Motown: Labor and Culture in the Cold War.” New

Labor Forum #4 (Spring/Summer 1999), 125-129.

“The Dance of Pragmatism and Marxism.” Against the Current #75

(July-August 1998).

“The Future of the Cultural Front.” Response to Symposium on The

Cultural Front. Labor History (Summer 1998).

“Belaboring the Cultural Front.” Response to Symposium on The

Cultural Front. Intellectual History Newsletter 19 (1997).

“Towards a People’s Theater: The Cultural Politics of the Mercury

Theatre.” In Ronald Gottesman, ed., Perspectives on CITIZEN KANE.

New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. Reprinted from Persistence of Vision #7

(1989).

“Culture and the Crisis: The Political and Intellectual Origins of

Cultural Studies in the United States.” In Cary Nelson and Dilip

Parameshwar Gaonkar, eds. Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural

Studies. New York: Routledge, 1996.

“Common Ground: Theorizing Peoples in the Age of the CIO.” In

David Bennett, ed. Cultural Studies: Pluralism and Theory. Melbourne: Melbourne University Literary and Cultural Studies, 1993.

“The Cartoonists’ Front.” South Atlantic Quarterly 92.1 (Winter 1993).

(With Holly Allen).

“The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies.” Radical History

Review #54 (Fall 1992). An earlier version was published as “Cultural

Studies and the Thought Police,” in Isabel Caldeira, ed., O Cânone

Nos Estudos Anglo-Americanos. Coimbra: Livraria Minerva, 1994.

“Licensed to Look: James Bond and the Heroism of Consumption,”

from Cover Stories. Reprinted in Francis Mulhern, ed. Contemporary

Marxist Literary Criticism. London: Longman, 1992; and in Christoph

Lindner, ed., The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003..

“Proletarian Literatures: Reflections on Working-Class Reading in the

Age of the CIO.” Cahiers Charles V #14 (1992).

“The End of Mass Culture.” International Labor and Working-Class

History #37 (Spring 1990). With responses by Janice Radway, Luisa Passerini, William Taylor, and Adelheid von Saldern. A slightly

different version was published as “The End of Mass Culture,” in

James Naremore and Patrick Brantlinger, eds., Modernity and Mass

Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

“The Ends of Ending Mass Culture.” International Labor and

Working-Class History #38 (Fall 1990).

“New York Intellectuals.” Socialist Review 18.1 (Jan-Mar 1988).

“Topographies of Violence: Chester Himes’ Harlem Domestic Novels.”

Critical Texts 5.1 (1988). Reprinted in Charles L.P. Silet, ed., The

Critical Response to Chester Himes. Westport: Greenwood Press,

1999.

“’The Special American Conditions’: Marxism and American Studies.”

American Quarterly 38.3 (1986).

“Class and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Warren Susman.”

Radical History Review #36 (1986).

“Cheap Stories: Notes on Popular Fiction and Working Class Culture.”

History Workshop #22 (Autumn 1986). A slightly different version was published as “Cheap Stories: Popular Fiction and Working Class

Culture in 19th Century America.” In Günter H. Lenz and Kurt L. Shell,

eds. The Crisis of Modernity: Recent Critical Theories of Culture and

Society in the United States and Germany. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag

and Boulder: Westview Press, 1986.

“Beggars and Thieves: The Beggar’s Opera as Crime Drama.” In

Peter Humm, Paul Stigant & Peter Widdowson, eds. Popular Fictions:

Essays in Literature and History. London: Methuen, 1986. Originally

published as “Beggars and Thieves: The Beggar’s Opera and the

Ideology of the Gang.” Literature and History 8 (Spring 1982).

“Rock Music.” In Sohnya Sayres and others, eds. The 60s Without

Apology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

“A 60s Movement in the 80s: Interview with David Apter.” In Sohnya

Sayres and others, eds. The 60s Without Apology. Minneapolis:

University of Minnesota Press, 1984. (With Fredric Jameson).

“Recent Developments in English Studies.” In Stuart Hall and others,

eds. Culture, Media, Language. London: Hutchinson, 1980.

(Co-author).


Articles

“Radical Out of Carolina: Josh White’s Cabaret Blues.” Village Voice,

January 14, 1997.

“After the Grade Strike.” The New Journal, February 9, 1996.

“Why a Graduate Student Union? Reflections on Yale as University, Corporation and Community.” Yale Daily News, February 1992. A

revised and expanded version, “Why a Graduate Student Union?

Reflections on Academic Freedom in the Research University,” was

published as a GESO pamphlet in March 1995.

“Money Changes Everything: The Divestment Blockade at Columbia,

Inc.” Social Text #12 (Fall 1985). An earlier version, co-authored with Elizabeth Blackmar, appeared in the Village Voice.

Reviews

Paul Buhle, Marxism in the United States. International Labor and

Working Class History #34 (Fall 1988).

Herbert Marcuse, The Aesthetic Dimension. Some Other Magazine

#3-4 (Fall 1980).

Interviews

"O nascimento da cultura americana moderna," Reportagem #27

(December 2001)

Translations into Other Languages

“Esquerda Global? Os Moviementos Sociais na Era dos Três Mundos.”

In Isabel Loureiro, José Corrêa Leite, and Maria Elisa Cevasco, eds.

O Espírito de Porto Alegre. São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2002.

“L’internazionale dei romanzieri.” In Franco Moretti, ed., Il romanzo.

Volume terzo: Storia e geografia. Torino: Einaudi, 2002.

“Thrillers, shockers, spy novels,” from Cover Stories, translated in

Chung-Wai Wen Hsueh [Chung-Wai Literary Monthly], August 2000.

“Lizenziert zum Schauen: James Bond und das Heroische des

Konsums,” in Hans-Otto Hügel and Johannes v. Moltke, eds. James

Bond: Spieler und Spion. Hildesheim: Roemer- und

Pelizaeus-Museum, 1998.