In a sense Continuum could be seen to have continued the work of Intervention in that we did inherit some of its cultural politics and critical edge. We were not as overtly political and leftist but like Intervention we strove to be 'cross-disciplinary' and to serve as broad an intellectual public as was possible given the topics dealt with and the people involved. And like these journals, we have had a quite explicit cultural politics to develop, renovate, criticise and assist the formation of Australian-based networks, cultural criticism, screen analysis, cultural practice and cultural policy. Each assay their own angle of incidence on cultural studies. During's international collection, Turner's and Morris and Frow's Australian cultural studies readers.
Readers represent as much a stocktaking of the past as suggesting future directions.
Most are geared for the general reader and the national and international text-book markets. Our version of a Cultural Studies Reader strives to be less synoptic, to be happily chaotic, to be mostly made up of new material, to canvass some new authors and to seek out screen-related objects on the margins of screen and cultural studies' central points of focus. Toby and I hope you enjoy this journey as much as we did in putting it together. Works Cited Blundell, Valda, John Shepherd and Ian Taylor, eds. Developments in Theory and Research .