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Cultural theory and popular culture : an introduction / John Storey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Storey, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Philosophy.
- Popular culture.
- Culture--Philosophy.
- Culture.
- Culture--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 291 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Ninth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In this ninth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey 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. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition remains a key introduction to the area. New to this edition: updated throughout with contemporary examples of popular culture revised and expanded sections on Richard Hoggart and Utopian Marxism brand new discussions on Black Lives Matter and Intersectionality updated student resources at www.routledge.com/cw/storey This new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, the sociology of culture, popular culture, and other related subjects"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. What is popular culture?
- Culture
- Ideology
- Popular culture
- Popular culture as other
- The contextuality of meaning
- Notes
- Further reading
- 2. The `culture and civilization' tradition
- Matthew Arnold
- Leavisism
- Mass culture in America: the post-war debate
- The culture of other people
- 3. Culturalism into cultural studies
- 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
- 4. Marxisms
- Classical Marxism
- The English Marxism of William Morris
- The Frankfurt School
- Althusserianism
- Hegemony
- Post-Marxism and cultural studies
- Utopian Marxism
- 5. Psychoanalysis
- Freudian psychoanalysis
- Lacanian psychoanalysis
- Cine-psychoanalysis
- Slavoj Zizek and Lacanian fantasy
- 6. Structuralism and post-structuralism
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Claude Levi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western
- Roland Barthes: Mythologies
- Post-structuralism
- Jacques Derrida
- Discourse and power: Michel Foucault
- The panoptic machine
- 7. Class and class struggle
- Class and popular culture
- Class in cultural studies
- Class struggle
- Consumption as class distinction
- The ideological work of meritocracy
- 8. 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
- Intersectionality
- 9. `Race', racism and representation
- `Race' and racism
- The ideology of racism: its historical emergence
- Orientalism
- Whiteness
- Anti-racism and cultural studies
- Black Lives Matter
- 10. Postmodernism
- The postmodern condition
- Postmodernism in the 1960s
- Jean-Francois Lyotard
- Jean Baudrillard
- Fredric Jameson
- Postmodernism and the pluralism of value
- The global postmodern
- Afterword
- 11. The materiality of popular culture
- Materiality
- Materiality as actor
- Meaning and materiality
- Materiality without meaning
- Material objects in a global world
- 12. 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:
- Revised edition of the author's Cultural theory and popular culture, 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Storey, John, Cultural theory and popular culture
- ISBN:
- 9780367820626
- 0367820625
- 9780367820602
- 0367820609
- OCLC:
- 1182020270
- Publisher Number:
- 99988778762
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