“<i>Matters of Gravity</i> is more than a collection of tour de force essays, although it is certainly that. It maps an important theoretical and critical project, reclaiming the ‘lively arts’ and exploring the kinetic and affective dimensions of popular culture. Scott Bukatman’s breathless prose and conceptual pyrotechnics embody popular culture’s dynamism, making us feel it, making us want to dance it. His writing crackles with wit, sparkles with vividness, and throbs with his own passionate engagement with his topic.”-<b>Henry Jenkins</b>, coeditor of <i>Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture</i> “Scott Bukatman is one of the very top figures in the attempt of cultural studies to understand modernity by looking at the interlocking of such phenomena as urbanism, new forms of masculinity, new technologies, and the role of the body.”-<b>Dana Polan</b>, author of the British Film Institute books<i> In a Lonely Place</i> and<i> Pulp Fiction</i>