Cultural theory and popular culture : a reader / edited by John Storey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Storey, John, 1950- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

Popular culture--Philosophy.

Culture--History.

Culture.

Popular Culture.

popular culture.

Medical Subjects:

Popular Culture.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 661 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"The fifth edition of John Storey's successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Reader is an essential companion volume to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, now in its eighth edition. The reader offers students the opportunity to experience first-hand the theorists and critics discussed in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction through crucial articles and essays spanning over a hundred years of cultural theory. It can be used both in conjunction with and independently of the textbook. Taken as a whole, this book provides a theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues in cultural studies. This edition includes: - a new section on Class, as well as additional readings on Sexuality and Gender. - fully revised general and section introductions from the editor, contextualising and linking the readings with key issues from the textbook - fully updated bibliography The new edition is 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:

Introduction : the study of popular culture and cultural studies

Culture and anarchy / Matthew Arnold

Mass civilization and minority culture / F.R. Leavis

The full rich life and the newer mass art : sex in shiny packets / Richard Hoggart

The analysis of culture / Raymond Williams

Preface from the making of the English woking class / E.P. Thompson

The young audience / Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel

Ruling class and ruling ideas / Karl Marx and Frederick Engles

Base and superstructure / Karl Marx

Letter to Joseph Bloch / Frederick Engels

On popular music / Theodor W. Adorno

Hegemony, intellectuals and the state / Antonio Gramsci

Popular culture and the 'turn to Gramsci' / Tony Bennett

Pleasurable negotiations / Christine Gledhill

The rediscovery of 'ideology' : return of the repressed in media studies / Stuart Hall

Post-Marxism without apologies / Ernesto Laclau with Chantal Mouffe

Class / Raymond Williams

from the Communist manifesto : bourgeois and proletarians / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Distinction & the aristocracy of culture / Pierre Bourdieu

The upper classes : visibility, adaptability and change / Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn

Meritocracy as plutocracy : the marketising of "equality" under neoliberalism / Jo Littler

Feminist approaches to popular culture : giving patriarchy its due / Lana F. Rakow

Dallas and the ideology of mass culture / Ien Ang

Reading Reading the romance / Janice Radway

Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler

What a man's gotta do / Anthony Easthope

Post-feminism and popular culture / Angela McRobbie

Blurred lines : the queer world of bad girls / Vicky Ball

Post-postfeminism? : new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times / Rosalind Gill

The dream-work / Sigmund Freud

The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience / Jacques Lacan

Myth today / Roland Barthes

The structure of myth & the structure of the Western film / Will Wright

Jules Verne : the faulty narrative / Pierre Macherey

Ideology and ideological state apparatuses / Louis Althusser

Method / Michel Foucault

Feminism & the principles of poststructuralism / Chris Weedon

From reality to the real / Slavoj Z̆iz̆ek

'Get up, get into it and get involved'

soul, civil rights and black power / Paul Gilroy

The colour purple : black women as cultural readers / Jacqueline Bobo

What is this 'black' in black popular culture? / Stuart Hall

Black postmodernist practices / Cornel West (interviewed by Anders Stephanson)

Postmodern blackness / bell hooks

The precession of simulacra / Jean Baudrillard

From here to modernity : feminism and postmodernism / Barbara Creed

Feminism, reading, postmodernism / Meaghan Morris

Postmodernism and 'the other side' / Dick Hebdige

Fashion and postmodernism / Elizabeth Wilson

Genericity in the nineties : electic irony and the new sincerity / Jim Collins

Notes on deconstructing 'the popular' / Stuart Hall

Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston : the creation of an organizational base for high culture in America / Paul DiMaggio

Cultural production / Terry Lovell

The practice of everyday life / Michel de Certeau

The popular economy / John Fiske

Feminist desire and female pleasure / Ien Ang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815393535

0815393539

9780815393542

0815393547

OCLC:

1060182035

Publisher Number:

90100517798