Cultural theory and popular culture : a reader / edited by John Storey.
Contributor(s): Storey, John
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BookPublisher: London : Prentice-Hall, 1994Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xviii, 646 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 013776121X.Subject(s): Popular culture | Popular culture -- Philosophy | Culture -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 306 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 306 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00068275 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Presents a critical survey of competing theories of, and approaches to, popular culture. This second edition text charts the changing relationship between cultural theory and popular culture, mapping the relationship between the production of theory and the consumption/production of culture.
Bibliography: (pages 625-636) and index.
Part one: The 'culture and civilisation' tradition -- Part two: Culturalism -- Part three: Structuralism and poststructuralism -- Part four: Marxism -- Part five: Feminism -- Part six: Postmodernism -- Part seven: The politics of the popular.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Introduction: The Study of Popular Culture and Cultural Studies
- Part I The Culture and Civilisation Tradition
- 2 Culture and Anarchy
- 3 Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture
- 4 A Theory of Mass Culture
- Part II Culturalism
- 5 The Full Rich Life and The Newer Mass Art
- 6 The Analysis of Culture
- 7 Preface to The Making of the English Working Class
- 8 The Young Audience
- 9 Working-Class Culture and Working-Class Politics in London, 1870-1900: Notes on the Remaking of a Working Class
- 10 Get up, get into it and get involved - Soul, Civil Rights and Black Power
- Part III Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
- 11 The Dream-Work
- 12 Myth Today
- 13 The Structures of Myth and The Structure of the Western
- 14 Jules Verne: The Faulty Narrative
- 15 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
- 16 Method
- 17 Feminism and the Principles of Poststructuralism
- 18 Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas
- 19 Base and Superstructure
- 20 Letter to Joseph Bloch
- 21 On Popular Music
- 22 Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State
- 23 Popular Culture and the 'Turn to Gramsci'
- 24 Rocking' Hegemony: West Coast Rock and America's War in Vietnam
- 25 Pleasurable Negotiations
- 26 Carnival and Carnivalesque
- Part IV Feminism
- 27 Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture
- 28 Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due
- 29 Reading the Romance
- 30 The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers
- 31 Soap Opera and Utopia
- 32 Feminist Crime Writing: The Politics of Genre
- 33 Feminism and Popular Culture
- Part V Postmodernism
- 34 The Procession of Simulacra
- 35 From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism
- 36 Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism
- 37 Postmodernism and 'The Other Side'
- 38 Black Postmodern Practices
- 39 Fashion and Postmodernism
- 40 Popular Music and Postmodern Theory
- 41 Postmodern Blackness
- Part VI The Politics of the Popular
- 42 Distinction and the Aristocracy of Culture
- 43 Notes on Deconstructing 'The Popular'
- 44 Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America
- 45 Cultural Production
- 46 The Practice of Everyday Life
- 47 The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and Sentimentality in Academia
- 48 The Popular Economy
- 49 Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure
- 50 'High Culture' Revisited
- 51 Symbolic Creativity
- 52 Pessimism, Optimism, Pleasure: The Future of Cultural Studies
- 53 The Good, The Bad and the Indifferent: Defending Popular Culture from the Populists
- 54 Trajectories of Cultural Populism
- 55 Political Economy and Cultural Studies: Reconciliation or Divorce?
- 56 Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy: Is Anybody Else Bored with this Debate?