Cultural Theory, Popular Culture : An Introduction

by STOREY JOHN

• ISBN13: 9780582423633
• ISBN10: 0582423635
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Summary

In this third edition of his successful introduction to cultural theory and popular culture, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. As before, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theoriesof and various approaches to popular culture. In addition to the theories and approaches discussed in the the first two editions, there is a new section issues involved in the on Queer Theory.  Four earlier sections have been extended, with new material on Reading Romance, Reading Women¹s Magazines, Feminism as Social Practice, Men¹s Studies and Masculinities. Illustrations have been added. Retaining the accessible approach of the the first two editions, and using relevant and appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition is bound to remain a favourite with students and lecturers alike.

Author Biography

Dr. John Storey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland.

Table of Contents

Each Chapter ends with a Further Reading section

What is Popular culture?

Culture Ideology Popular Culture Popular, Culture as O ther

The 'Culture and Civilisation'

Tradition Matthew Arnold Leavisism, Mass Culture in America: the Post-war Debate

The Culture of Other People

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

Structuralism and Post- Structualism Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western, Roland Barthes: Mythologies, Post-structuralism Jacques Derrida Jacques Lacan Discourse and Power: Michel Foucault and Edward Said

Marxisms, Classical Marxism The Frankfurt School Althusserianism Neo-Gramsican Cultural Studies, Popular Culture and the Carnivalesque

Gender and Sexuality, Feminisms Popular Film, Cine-psychoanalysts and Cultural Studies, Reading Romance Watching Dallas, Reading Women's Magazines, Feminism as Social Practice Men's Studies and Masculinities, Queer Theory

Postmodernism The Postmodern Condition, Postmodernism in the 1960s Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Fredric Jameson, Postmodern Pop Music Postmodernism and the Pluralism of Value,

The Politics of the Popular A Paradigm Crisis in Cultural Studies? The Cultural Field, The Economic Field, Hegemony Revisited, The Ideology of Mass Culture, Journals on Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

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Index

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