Document Type
Interview
Abstract
Michael Denning is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His first two books, Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (Routledge, 1987) and Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture (Verso, 1987), examined the politics of popular fiction. He followed them up with The Cultural Front: Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Verso, 1998), which has become the encyclopedic study of the culture of the American Popular Front. Denning's most recent work, Culture in an Age of Three Worlds (Verso, 2004), analyses the rise and fall of American and Cultural Studies, providing a coda to his earlier work.
Repository Citation
Cohen, Victor. "The Cultural Commons: An Interview with Michael Denning." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1–31. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss1/21