Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A ReaderJohn Storey Whether used on its own or in conjunction with Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, this reader is a theoretical, analytical, and historical introduction to the study of popular culture within cultural studies. The readings cover the culture and civilization tradition, culturalism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism, as well as current debates in the study of popular culture. New to this edition:
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Contents
Roland Barthes Myth Today | 109 |
Will Wright The Structure of Myth The Structure of the Western Film | 119 |
The Faulty Narrative | 135 |
Louis Althusser Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses | 153 |
Michel Foucault Method | 165 |
Chris Weedon Feminism The Principles of Poststructuralism | 172 |
Marxism | 185 |
Introduction | 187 |
Jean Baudrillard The Precession of Simulacra | 350 |
Feminism and Postmodernism | 358 |
Meaghan Morris Feminism Reading Postmodernism | 365 |
Dick Hebdige Postmodernism and The Other Side | 371 |
Cornel West interviewed by Anders Stephanson Black Postmodernist Practices | 387 |
Elizabeth Wilson Fashion and Postmodernism | 392 |
Andrew Goodwin Popular Music and Postmodern Theory | 403 |
bell hooks Postmodern Blackness | 417 |
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas | 191 |
Karl Marx Base and Superstructure | 193 |
Frederick Engels Letter to Joseph Bloch | 194 |
Theodor W Adorno On Popular Music | 197 |
Antonio Gramsci Hegemony Intellectuals and the State | 210 |
Tony Bennett Popular Culture and the turn to Gramsci | 217 |
West Coast Rock and Amerikas War in Vietnam | 225 |
Christine Gledhill Pleasurable Negotiations | 236 |
Mikhail Bakhtin Carnival and Carnivalesque | 250 |
Feminism | 261 |
Introduction | 263 |
len Ang Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture | 265 |
Giving Patriarchy its Due | 275 |
Janice Radway Reading Reading the Romance | 292 |
Black Women as Cultural Readers | 310 |
Christine Geraghty Soap Opera and Utopia | 319 |
The Politics of Genre | 328 |
Morag Shiach Feminism and Popular Culture | 333 |
Postmodernism | 343 |
Introduction | 345 |
The Politics of the Popular | 425 |
Introduction | 427 |
Pierre Bourdieu Distinction The Aristocracy of Culture | 431 |
Stuart Hall Notes on Deconstructing the Popular | 442 |
The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America | 454 |
Terry Lovell Cultural Production | 476 |
Michel de Certeau The Practice of Everyday Life | 483 |
Sense and Sentimentality in Academia | 495 |
John Fiske The Popular Economy | 504 |
len Ang Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure | 522 |
Jostein Gripsrud High Culture Revisited | 532 |
Paul Willis Symbolic Creativity | 546 |
The Future of Cultural Studies | 554 |
Defending Popular Culture from the Populists | 570 |
Jim McGuigan Trajectories of Cultural Populism | 587 |
Reconciliation or Divorce? | 600 |
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Acknowledgements | 637 |
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aesthetic American analysis Angela McRobbie argues articulation artistic audience Black women bourgeois British Film Institute carnival carnivalistic characters Color Purple commodity concept consumption context counterculture critical critique cultural production cultural studies Dallas discourse dominant dream dream-work example existence experience expression fact feminism feminist fiction film function gender genre Gramsci hegemony hero high culture identity Ideological State Apparatuses ideology ideology of mass images individual industry institutions intellectual interpretation Jefferson Airplane language literary London Marxist mass culture meaning myth narrative nature opposition particular pleasure political pop music popular culture popular music position possible postmodernism poststructuralism practices problem question readers Reading the Romance reality relations relationship represent representation romance reading sense sexual Shane signifier soap opera social society song specific Starrett structure struggle Stuart Hall symbolic television textual theoretical theory tradition values working-class writing