Cultural theory and popular culture : a reader

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Title:

Author:

Storey, John, 1950-

ISBN:

9781405874212

Edition:

4th ed.

Publication Information:

Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2009.

Physical Description:

xxi, 671 p. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Previous ed.: Harlow, England : Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006.

"Companion volume to Cultural theory and popular culture, 5th edition (Pearson Education, 2008)"--Pref.

Contents:

Introduction" The Study of Popular Culture and Cultural Studies -- Pt. 1. The 'Culture and Civilization' Tradition -- 1. Culture and Anarchy / Matthew Arnold -- 2. Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture / F. R. Leavis -- Pt. 2. Culturalism -- 3. The Full Rich Life & The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets / Richard Hoggart -- 4. The Analysis of Culture / Raymond Williams -- 5. Preface from The Milking of the English Working Class / E. P. Thompson -- 6. The Young Audience / Stuart Hall, Paddy Wharmel -- Pt. 3. Marxism -- 7. Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas / Karl Marx, Frederick Engels -- 8. Base and Superstructure / Karl Marx -- 9. Letter to Joseph Bloch / Frederick Engels -- 10. On Popular Music / Theodor W. Adorno -- 11. Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State / Antonio Gramsci -- 12. Popular Culture and the 'turn to Gramsci' / Tony Bennett -- 13. Rockin' Hegemony: West Coast Rock and Amerika's War in Vietnam / John Storey -- 14. Pleasurable Negotiations / Christine Gledhill -- 15. The Rediscovery of 'Ideology': Return of the Repressed in Media Studies / Stuart Hall -- 16. Post-Marxism without Apologies / Ernesto Laclau Chantal Mouffe -- Pt. 4. Feminism -- 17. Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture / Jen Ang -- 18. Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due / Lana F. Rakow -- 19. Reading Reading the Romance / Janice Radway -- 20. Soap Opera and Utopia / Christine Geraghty -- 21. Imitation and Gender Insubordination / Judith Butler -- Pt. 5. Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Post-structuralism -- 22. The Dream-Work / Sigmund Freud -- 23. The Mirror Stage / Jacques Lacan -- 24. Myth Today / Roland Barthes -- 25. The Structure of Myth & The Structure of the Western Film / Will Wright

Abstract:

This is a companion volume to the fifth edition of 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction'. Its aim is to provide a map of the development of the study of popular culture across the field of cultural theory from the postdisciplinary perspective of cultural studies.

Subject Term:

Popular culture.

Popular culture -- Philosophy.

Culture -- History.

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Summary

The new 4th edition of John Storey¿s successful reader in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture is a companion volume to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction , now in its 5th edition. The Reader offers students the opportunity to experience at first hand the theorists and critics discussed in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction . It can be used both in conjunction with and independently of the textbook.

Taken as a whole, the reader provides a theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues in cultural studies.

New to this edition:

- 4 new readings:

Stuart Hall, What Is This ¿Black¿ in Black Popular Culture Amir Saeed, Musical Jihad Neil Perryman, Dr Who and the Convergence of Media Jim Collins, Genericity in the Nineties

- fully revised general and section introductions from the editor, contextualising and linking the readings with key issues from the textbook

- full 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.