Cultural Theory And Popular Culture

by Storey, John

• ISBN13: 9780820328393
• ISBN10: 0820328391
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

In this new edition of his widely adoptedCultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. Like previous editions, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture.New to this edition: Extensively revised, rewritten, and updated Improved and expanded content throughout including a new chapter on psychoanalysis and a new section on post-Marxism and the global postmodern Closer explicit links to the new edition companion readerCultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader More illustrative diagrams and images Fully revised, improved, and updated companion web siteIdeal 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 fourth edition	xi
Preface to third edition	xi
Preface to second edition	xi
Preface to first edition	xii
Acknowledgements	xii
Publisher acknowledgements	xiii
What is popular culture?	1	(12)
Culture	1	(1)
Ideology	2	(2)
Popular culture	4	(7)
Popular culture as other	11	(1)
Further reading	11	(2)
The `culture and civilization' tradition	13	(16)
Matthew Arnold	14	(3)
Leavisism	17	(4)
Mass culture in America: the post-war debate	21	(4)
The culture of other people	25	(1)
Further reading	26	(3)
Culturalism	29	(18)
Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy	29	(5)
Raymond Williams: `The analysis of culture'	34	(4)
E. P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class	38	(1)
Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel: The Popular Arts	39	(5)
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies	44	(1)
Further reading	44	(3)
Marxisms	47	(24)
Classical Marxism	47	(2)
The Frankfurt School	49	(7)
Althusserianism	56	(7)
Hegemony	63	(2)
Post-Marxism and cultural studies	65	(5)
Further reading	70	(1)
Psychoanalysis	71	(16)
Freudian psychoanalysis	71	(8)
Lacanian psychoanalysis	79	(2)
Cine-psychoanalysis	81	(2)
Slavoj Zizek and Lacanian fantasy	83	(2)
Further reading	85	(2)
Structuralism and post-structuralism	87	(18)
Ferdinand de Saussure	87	(2)
Claude Levi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western	89	(3)
Roland Barthes: Mythologies	92	(6)
Post-structuralism	98	(1)
Jacques Derrida	98	(3)
Discourse and power: Michel Foucault and Edward Said	101	(3)
Further reading	104	(1)
Gender and sexuality	105	(24)
Feminisms	105	(1)
Women at the cinema	106	(3)
Reading romance	109	(5)
Watching Dallas	114	(4)
Reading women's magazines	118	(5)
Men's studies and masculinities	123	(1)
Queer theory	124	(3)
Further reading	127	(2)
Postmodernism	129	(26)
The postmodern condition	129	(1)
Postmodernism in the 1960s	130	(1)
Jean-Francois Lyotard	131	(2)
Jean Baudrillard	133	(4)
Fredric Jameson	137	(4)
Postmodern pop music	141	(1)
Postmodern television	142	(2)
Postmodernism and the pluralism of value	144	(2)
The global postmodern	146	(6)
Afterword	152	(1)
Further reading	152	(3)
The politics of the popular	155	(18)
A paradigm crisis in cultural studies?	155	(2)
The cultural field	157	(8)
The economic field	165	(4)
Post-Marxist cultural studies: hegemony revisited	169	(2)
The ideology of mass culture	171	(1)
Further reading	172	(1)
Notes	173	(3)
Bibliography	176	(9)
Index	185