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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture An Introduction

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ISBN-10: 1408285274

ISBN-13: 9781408285275

Edition: 6th 2011 (Revised)

Authors: John Storey

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List price: $27.99
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
Publication date: 4/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Preface/Acknowledgements
Publisher's acknowledgements
What is popular culture?
Culture
Ideology
Popular culture
Popular culture as other
Further reading
The 'culture and civilization' tradition
Matthew Arnold
Leavisism
Mass culture in America: the post-war debate
The culture of other people
Further reading
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
Further reading
Marxisms
Classical Marxism
The English Marxism of William Morris
The Frankfurt School
Althusserianism
Hegemony
Post-Marxism and cultural studies
Further reading
Psychoanalysis
Freudian psychoanalysis
Lacanian psychoanalysis
Cine-psychoanalysis
Slavoj Zizek and Lacanian fantasy
Further reading
Structuralism and post-structuralism
Ferdinand de Saussure
Claude L�vi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western
Roland Barthes: Mythologies
Post-structuralism
Jacques Derrida
Discourse and power: Michel Foucault
The panoptic machine
Further reading
Gender and sexuality
Feminisms
Women at the cinema
Reading romance
Watching Dallas
Reading women's magazines
Post-feminism
Men's studies and masculinities
Queer theory
Further reading
'Race', racism and representation
'Race' and racism
The ideology of racism: its historical emergence
Orientalism
Whiteness
Anti-racism and cultural studies
Further reading
Postmodernism
The postmodern condition
Postmodernism in the 1960s
Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard
Jean Baudrillard
Fredric Jameson
Postmodern pop music
Postmodern television
Postmodernism and the pluralism of value
The global postmodern
Convergence culture
Afterword
Further reading
The politics of the popular
The cultural field
The economic field
Post-Marxist cultural studies: hegemony revisited
The ideology of mass culture
Further reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Supporting resources