Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader

by Storey; John

• ISBN13: 9781405874212
• ISBN10: 140587421X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The reader provides a theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues in cultural studies. The text includes four new readings:1). Stuart Hall,What Is This ‘Black' in Black Popular Culture 2). Amir Saeed,Musical Jihad 3). Neil Perryman, Dr Who and the Convergence of Media 4). Jim Collins,Genericity in the Nineties Fully revised general and section introductions from the editor, contextualise and link the readings with key issues from the textbook A fully updated bibliography is provided

Author Biography

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 books called 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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition	p. x
Publisher's Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: The Study of Popular Culture and Cultural Studies	p. xv
The 'Culture and Civilization' Tradition	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Culture and Anarchy	p. 6
Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture	p. 12
Culturalism	p. 21
Introduction	p. 23
The Full Rich Life & The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets	p. 26
The Analysis of Culture	p. 32
Preface from The Making of the English Working Class	p. 41
The Young Andience	p. 45
Marxism	p. 53
Introduction	p. 55
Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas	p. 58
Base and Superstructure	p. 60
Letter to Joseph Bloch	p. 61
On Popular Music	p. 63
Hegemony, Intellectuals and the Stae	p. 75
Popular Culture and the 'turn to Gramsci'	p. 81
Rockin' Hegemony: West Cost Rock and Amerika's War in Vietnam	p. 88
Pleasurable Negotiations	p. 98
The Redisoovery of 'Ideology' Return of the Repressed in Media Stndies	p. 111
Post-Marxism without Apologies	p. 142
Femintsm	p. 169
Introduction	p. 171
Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture	p. 173
Femimist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due	p. 183
Reading Reading the Romance	p. 199
Soap Opera and Utopia	p. 216
Imitation and Gender Insubordination	p. 224
Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Post-structuralism	p. 239
Introduction	p. 241
The Dream-Work	p. 246
The Mirror Stage	p. 255
Myth Today	p. 261
The Structure of Myth & The Structure of the Western Film	p. 270
Jules Verne: The Faulty Narrative	p. 285
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses	p. 302
Method	p. 313
Feminism & The Principles of Poststructuralism	p. 320
From Reality to the Real	p. 332
'Race', Racism and Representation	p. 349
Introdustion	p. 351
'Get up, get into it and get involved' - Soul, Civil Rights and Black Power	p. 355
The Color Purple Black Women as Cultural Readers	p. 365
What Is This 'Black' in Black Popular Culture?	p. 374
(interviewed by Anders Stephanson) Black Postmodernist Practices	p. 383
Postmodern Blackness	p. 388
Musical Jihad	p. 395
Postmodernism	p. 403
Introduction	p. 403
The Precession of Simnlacra	p. 405
From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodermism	p. 416
Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism	p. 423
Postmodernism and 'The Other Side'	p. 429
Fashion and Postmdernism	p. 444
Genericity in the Nineties	p. 454
Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media	p. 472
The Polities of the Popular	p. 493
Introduction	p. 495
Distinction & The Aristocracy of Culture	p. 498
Notes on Deconstructing 'the Popular'	p. 508
Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America	p. 519
Cultural Production	p. 539
The Practice of Everyday Life	p. 545
The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and Sentimentality in Academia	p. 556
The Popular Economy	p. 564
Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure	p. 581
Pessimism, Optimism, Pleasure: The Future of Cultural Studies	p. 591
Trajectories of Cultural Populism	p. 606
Political Economy and Cultural Studies: Reconciliation or Divorce?	p. 618
Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy: Is Anybody Else Bored With this Dehate?	p. 630
Bibliography	p. 641
Index	p. 651
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