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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Visit the Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, sixth edition Companion Website at www.routledge.com/9781408285275 to find valuable student learning material including: Extension activities for each chapter Extra questions to aid revision and further understanding Annotated links to relevant sites on the web and further reading Multiple choice questions to check basic understanding Glossary of key terms Cultural Theory and Popular Culture An Introduction Sixth edition John Storey University of Sunderland First published 1997 by Pearson Education Limited Fourth edition published 2006 Fifth edition published 2009 Sixth edition published 2012 Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 1997, 2001, 2012, Taylor & Francis. 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In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility. To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the authors, contributors, or editors, assume any liability for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions, or ideas contained in the material herein. ISBN 978-1-4082-8527-5 (pbk) British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress for Jenny and Xiangyan Contents Preface/Acknowledgements Publisher’s acknowledgements 1 What is popular culture? Culture Ideology Popular culture Popular culture as other Further reading 2 The ‘culture and civilization’ tradition Matthew Arnold Leavisism Mass culture in America: the post-war debate The culture of other people Further reading 3 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 4 Marxisms Classical Marxism The English Marxism of William Morris The Frankfurt School Althusserianism Hegemony Post-Marxism and cultural studies Further reading 5 Psychoanalysis Freudian psychoanalysis Lacanian psychoanalysis Cine-psychoanalysis Slavoj Žižek and Lacanian fantasy Further reading 6 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 Further reading 7 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 8 ‘Race’, racism and representation ‘Race’ and racism The ideology of racism: its historical emergence Orientalism Whiteness Anti-racism and cultural studies Further reading 9 Postmodernism The postmodern condition Postmodernism in the 1960s Jean-François Lyotard Jean Baudrillard Fredric Jameson Postmodern pop music Postmodern television Postmodernism and the pluralism of value The global postmodern Convergence culture Afterword Further reading 10 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 Visit www.routledge.com/9781408285275 to find valuable online resources Companion Website for students Extension activities for each chapter Extra questions to aid revision and further understanding Annotated links to relevant sites on the web and further reading Multiple choice questions to check basic understanding Glossary of key terms Also: The Companion Website provides the following features: Search tool to help locate specific items of content E-mail results and profile tools to send results of quizzes to instructors Online help and support to assist with website usage and troubleshooting
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