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Cultural theory and popular culture : an introduction / John Storey.
LIBRA CB19 .S743 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Storey, John, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Philosophy.
- Popular culture.
- Culture--Philosophy.
- Culture.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 What is popular culture? 1
- Culture 1
- Ideology 2
- Popular culture 5
- Popular culture as other 13
- 2 The 'culture and civilization' tradition 17
- Matthew Arnold 18
- Leavisism 22
- Mass culture in America: the post-war debate 28
- The culture of other people 33
- 3 Culturalism 37
- Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy 38
- Raymond Williams: The analysis of culture' 44
- E.P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class 49
- Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel: The Popular Arts 51
- The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 57
- 4 Marxisms 59
- Classical Marxism 59
- The Frankfurt School 62
- Althusserianism 70
- Hegemony 79
- Post-Marxism and cultural studies 82
- 5 Psychoanalysis 91
- Freudian psychoanalysis 91
- Lacanian psychoanalysis 101
- Cine-psychoanalysis 104
- Slavoj Zizek and Lacanian fantasy 107
- 6 Structuralism and post-structuralism 111
- Ferdinand de Saussure 111
- Claude Levi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western 114
- Roland Barthes: Mythologies 118
- Post-structuralism 126
- Jacques Derrida 126
- Discourse and power: Michel Foucault 128
- The panoptic machine 131
- 7 Gender and sexuality 135
- Feminisms 135
- Women at the cinema 136
- Reading romance 140
- Watching Dallas 147
- Reading women's magazines 153
- Men's studies and masculinities 159
- Queer theory 160
- 8 'Race', racism and representation 167
- 'Race' and racism 167
- The ideology of racism: its historical emergence 168
- Orientalism 171
- Anti-racism and cultural studies 179
- 9 Postmodernism 181
- The postmodern condition 181
- Postmodernism in the 1960s 182
- Jean-Francois Lyotard 184
- Jean Baudrillard 186
- Fredric Jameson 191
- Postmodern pop music 197
- Postmodern television 198
- Postmodernism and the pluralism of value 201
- The global postmodern 203
- Convergence culture 210
- 10 The politics of the popular 213
- A paradigm crisis in cultural studies? 213
- The cultural field 216
- The economic field 226
- Post-Marxist cultural studies: hegemony revisited 232
- The ideology of mass culture 234.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-252) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781405874090
- 1405874090
- OCLC:
- 245536473
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