Cultural Theory And Popular Culture

by Storey, John

• ISBN13: 9780820328492
• ISBN10: 0820328499
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-26
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

Whether used on its own or in conjunction withCultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, this reader is a theoretical, analytical, and historical introduction to the study of popular culture within cultural studies. The readings cover the culture and civilization tradition, culturalism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism, as well as current debates in the study of popular culture.New to this edition: Four new readings by Stuart Hall, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, and Savoj zizek Fully revised general and section introductions that contextualize and link the readings with key issues inCultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction Fully updated bibliographyIdeal for courses in: cultural studies media studies communication studies sociology of culture popular culture visual studies cultural criticism

Author Biography

John Storey is a professor of cultural studies and director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, England. He is also a visiting professor at the universities of Henan and Wuhan in China. Storey has published widely in cultural studies; his six books include Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture (Georgia). His work has been translated into Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	x
Publisher's Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: The Study of Popular Culture and Cultural Studies	xv
Part One: The `Culture and Civilization' Tradition	1	(20)
Introduction	3	(3)
Culture and Anarchy	6	(6)
Matthew Arnold
Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture	12	(9)
F.R. Leavis
Part Two: Culturalism	21	(42)
Introduction	23	(3)
The Full Rich Life & The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets	26	(6)
Richard Hoggart
The Analysis of Culture	32	(9)
Raymond Williams
Preface from The Making of the English Working Class	41	(4)
E.P. Thompson
The Young Audience	45	(7)
Stuart Hall
Paddy Whannel
`Get up, get into it and get involved' -- Soul, Civil Rights and Black Power	52	(11)
Paul Gilroy
Part Three: Marxism	63	(122)
Introduction	65	(3)
Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas	68	(2)
Karl Marx
Frederick Engels
Base and Superstructure	70	(1)
Karl Marx
Letter to Joseph Bloch	71	(2)
Frederick Engels
On Popular Music	73	(12)
Theodor W. Adorno
Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State	85	(7)
Antonio Gramsci
Popular Culture and the `turn to Gramsci'	92	(8)
Tony Bennett
Rockin' Hegemony: West Coast Rock and Amerika's War in Vietnam	100	(11)
John Storey
Pleasurable Negotiations	111	(13)
Christine Gledhill
The Rediscovery of `Ideology': Return of the Repressed in Media Studies	124	(32)
Stuart Hall
Post-Marxism without Apologies	156	(29)
Ernesto Laclau with
Chantal Mouffe
Part Four: Feminism	185	(86)
Introduction	187	(2)
Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture	189	(10)
Ien Ang
Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due	199	(16)
Lana F. Rakow
Reading Reading the Romance	215	(17)
Janice Radway
Feminist Crime Writing: The Politics of Genre	232	(5)
Yvonne Tasker
The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers	237	(9)
Jacqueline Bobo
Soap Opera and Utopia	246	(9)
Christine Geraghty
Imitation and Gender Insubordination	255	(16)
Judith Butler
Part Five: Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Post-structuralism	271	(112)
Introduction	273	(5)
The Dream-Work	278	(9)
Sigmund Freud
The Mirror Stage	287	(6)
Jacques Lacan
Myth Today	293	(10)
Roland Barthes
The Structure of Myth & The Structure of the Western Film	303	(15)
Will Wright
Jules Verne: The Faulty Narrative	318	(18)
Pierre Macherey
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses	336	(11)
Louis Althusser
Method	347	(7)
Michel Foucault
Feminism & The Principles of Poststructuralism	354	(13)
Chris Weedon
From Reality to the Real	367	(16)
Slavoj Zizek
Part Six: Postmodernism	383	(78)
Introduction	385	(4)
The Precession of Simulacra	389	(8)
Jean Baudrillard
From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism	397	(7)
Barbara Creed
Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism	404	(6)
Meaghan Morris
Postmodernism and `The Other Side'	410	(15)
Dick Hebdige
(interviewed by Anders Stephanson) Black Postmodernist Practices	425	(5)
Cornel West
Fashion and Postmodernism	430	(10)
Elizabeth Wilson
Popular Music and Postmodern Theory	440	(14)
Andrew Goodwin
Postmodern Blackness	454	(7)
bell hooks
Part Seven: The Politics of the Popular	461	(176)
Introduction	463	(3)
Distinction & The Aristocracy of Culture	466	(11)
Pierre Bourdieu
Notes on Deconstructing `the Popular'	477	(11)
Stuart Hall
Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America	488	(21)
Paul DiMaggio
Cultural Production	509	(7)
Terry Lovell
The Practice of Everyday Life	516	(12)
Michel de Certeau
The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and Sentimentality in Academia	528	(9)
Michael Schudson
The Popular Economy	537	(17)
John Fiske
Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure	554	(10)
Ien Ang
Symbolic Creativity	564	(7)
Paul Willis
Pessimism, Optimism, Pleasure: The Future of Cultural Studies	571	(15)
Duncan Webster
The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent: Defending Popular Culture from the Populists	586	(16)
Simon Frith
Trajectories of Cultural Populism	602	(12)
Jim McGuigan
Political Economy and Cultural Studies: Reconciliation or Divorce?	614	(12)
Nicholas Garnham
Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy: Is Anybody Else Bored with this Debate?	626	(11)
Lawrence Grossberg
Bibliography	637	(10)
Index	647