| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
What is popular culture? Culture ; Ideology ; Popular culture ; Popular culture as other -- The 'culture and civilization' tradition. Matthew Arnold ; Leavisism ; Mass culture in America: the post-war debate ; The culture of other people -- Culturalism. Richard Hoggart: The use 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 -- Marxisms. Classic marxism ; The Frankfurt school ; Althusserianism ; Hegemony ; Post-marxism and cultural studies -- Psychoanalysis. Freudian psychoanalysis ; Lacanian psychoanalysis ; Cine-psychoanalysis ; Slavoj Žižek and Lacanian fantasy -- Structuralism and post-structuralism. Ferdinand de Saussure ; Claude Lévi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western ; Roland Barthes: Mythologies ; Post-structuralism ; Jacques Derrida ; Discourse and power: Michel Foucault ; The panoptic machine -- Gender and sexuality. Feminisms ; Women at the cinema ; Reading romance ; Watching Dallas ; Reading women's magazines ; Men's studies and masculines ; Queer theory -- 'Race', racism and representation. 'Race' and racism ; The ideology of racism: its historical emergence ; Orientalism ; Anti-racism and cultural studies -- Postmodernism. The postmodern condition ; Postmodernism in the 1960s ; Jean-François Lyotard ; Jean Baudrillard ; Frederic Jameson ; Postmodern pop music ; Postmodern television ; Postmodernism and the pluralism of value ; The global postmodern ; Convergence culture ; Afterword -- The politics of the popular. A paradigm crisis in cultural studies? ; The cultural field ; The economic field ; Post-marxist cultural studies: hegemony revisited ; The ideology of mass culture |
| Summary |
In this 6th edition of his successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. As before, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Also retaining the accessible approach of previous editions, and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition r |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Philosophy
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Culture -- Philosophy
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Culture -- Philosophy
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Popular culture -- Philosophy
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Alltagskultur
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Kulturtheorie
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Massenkultur
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Kulturwissenschaften
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317860457 |
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1317860454 |
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9781315832968 |
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1315832968 |
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9780273780069 |
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0273780069 |
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9781317860433 |
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1317860438 |
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9781317860440 |
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1317860446 |
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