Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

In this fifth edition of his successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. As
before, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories
of and various approaches to popular culture.

Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions, and using
relevant and appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular
culture, this new edition remains a key introduction to the area.

New to this edition

• Extensively revised, rewritten and updated
• Improved and expanded content throughout including:
  New chapter on Race, racism and representation
  New sections on The Panoptic Machine and Convergence Culture
• Continued explicit links to the new edition companion reader Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader
• More illustrative diagrams and images
• Fully revised, improved and updated companion website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/storey providing practice questions and extension activities, as well as annotated links to relevant sites on the web and further reading, and a glossary of key terms, to promote further understanding of the study of cultural theory and popular culture

The new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate
students of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, the
sociology of culture, popular culture and other related subjects.

 

John Storey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland. He has published widely in cultural studies, including seven books. The most recent book is The Articulation of Memory and Desire (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2007). His work has been translated into Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. He has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Henan, Vienna and Wuhan.

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1. What is popular culture?

Culture.

Ideology.

Popular culture.

Popular culture as other.

Further reading.

2. The culture and civilization tradition.

Matthew Arnold.

Leavisism.

Mass culture in America: the post-war debate.

The culture of other people.

Further reading.

3. Culturalism.

Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy.

Raymond Williams: The analysis of culture.

E. P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class.

Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel: The Popular Arts.

The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.

Further reading.

4. Marxisms.

Classical Marxism.

The Frankfurt School.

Althusserianism.

Hegemony.

Post-Marxism and cultural studies.

Further reading.

5. Psychoanalysis.

Freudian psychoanalysis.

Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Cine-psychoanalysis.

Slavoj Zizek and Lacanian fantasy.

Further reading.

6. Structuralism and post-structuralism.

Ferdinand de Saussure.

Claude Lvi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western.

Roland Barthes: Mythologies.

Post-structuralism.

Jacques Derrida.

Discourse and power: Michel Foucault.

Further reading.

7. Gender and sexuality.

Feminisms.

Women at the cinema.

Readingromance.

Watching Dallas.

Readingwomens magazines.

Mens studies and masculinities.

Queer theory.

Further reading.

8. Race, racism and representation.

Race and racism.

The ideology of racism: its historical emergence.

Orientalism.

Anti-racism and cultural studies.

Further reading.

9. Postmodernism.

The postmodern condition.

Postmodernism in the 1960s.

Jean-Franois Lyotard.

Jean Baudrillard.

Fredric Jameson.

Postmodern pop music.

Postmodern television.

Postmodernism and the pluralism of value.

The global postmodern.

Convergence culture.

Afterword.

Further reading.

10. The politics of the popular.

A paradigm crisis in cultural studies?

The cultural field.

The economic field.

Post-Marxist cultural studies: hegemony revisited.

The ideology of mass culture.

Further reading.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

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