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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture John Storey

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture By John Storey

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture by John Storey


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Presents a survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Suitable for students of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, the sociology of culture, popular culture and other related subjects, this book also includes a chapter on psychoanalysis, and a section on post-Marxism and the global postmodern.

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Summary

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction by John Storey

This highly successful fourth edition of this text continues to present a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions, and using relevant and appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition remains a key introduction to the area.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface to Fourth Edition Preface toThird Edition Preface to Second Edition Preface to First Edition 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 Frankfurt School Althusserianism Hegemony Post-Marxism and Cultural Studies Further Reading 5 Psychoanalysis Freudian Psychoanalysis Lacanian Psychoanalysis Cine-Psychoanalysis Slavoj Zizek and Lacanian Fantasy Further Reading 6 Structuralism and Post-structuralism 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 Further Reading 7 Gender and Sexuality Feminisms Women at the Cinema Reading Romance Watching Dallas Reading Women's Magazines Men's Studies and Masculinities Queer Theory Further Reading 8 Postmodernism The Postmodern Condition Postmodernism in the 1960s Jean-Francois Lyotard Jean Baudrillard Postmodern Television Postmodernism and the Pluralism of Value The Global Postmodern Further Reading 9 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 Further Reading Journals on Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Notes Index

Additional information

GOR002770714
9780131970687
0131970682
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction by John Storey
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
2006-01-26
208
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