Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction

by Storey, John

• ISBN13: 9780131970694
• ISBN10: 0131970690
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Table of Contents

Preface to Third Edition

Introduction: The Study of Popular Culture and Cultural Studies

The 'Culture and Civilisation'

Tradition

Introduction

Culture and Anarchy

Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture

Culturalism

Introduction

The Full Rich Life & The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets

The Analysis of Culture

Preface from The Making of the English Working Class

Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel

Gilroy'Get up, get into it and get involved'

Marxism

Introduction

Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas

Base and Superstructure

Letter to Joseph Bloch

On Popular Music

Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State

Popular Culture and the 'turn to Gramsci'

Rockin'

Pleasurable Negotiations

The rediscovery of 'ideology': return of the repressed in media studies

Post-Marxism without apologies

Feminism

Introduction

Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture

Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due

Reading Reading the Romance

Feminist Crime Writing: The Politics of Genre

The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers

Soap Opera and Utopia

Imitation and Gender Insubordination

Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Introduction

The Dream-Work

The Mirror Stage

Myth Today

The Structure of Myth & The Structure of the Western Film

Jules Verne: The Faulty Narrative

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

Method

Feminism & The Principles of Poststructuralism

From Reality to the Real

Postmodernism

Introduction

The Precession of Simulacra

From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism

Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism

Postmodernism and 'The Other Side'

Black Postmodernist Practices

Fashion and Postmodernism

Popular Music and Postmodern Theory

Postmodern Blackness

The Politics of the Popular

Introduction

Distinction & The Aristocracy of Culture

Notes on Deconstructing 'the Popular'

Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America

Cultural Production

The Practice of Everyday Life

The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and Sentimentality in Academia

The Popular Economy

Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure

Symbolic Creativity

Pessimism, Optimism, Pleasure: The Future of Cultural Studies

The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent: Defending

Trajectories of Cultural Populism

Political Economy and Cultural Studies: Reconciliation or Divorce?

Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy: is Anybody Else Bored with this Debate?

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index

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