Synopses & Reviews
In this fifth edition of his successful
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. As
before, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories
of and various approaches to popular culture.
Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions, and using
relevant and appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular
culture, this new edition remains a key introduction to the area.
New to this edition
- Extensively revised, rewritten and updated
- Improved and expanded content throughout including:
New chapter on Race, racism and representation
New sections on The Panoptic Machine and Convergence Culture
- Continued explicit links to the new edition companion reader Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader
- More illustrative diagrams and images
- Fully revised, improved and updated companion website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/storey providing practice questions and extension activities, as well as annotated links to relevant sites on the web and further reading, and a glossary of key terms, to promote further understanding of the study of cultural theory and popular culture
The 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.
John Storey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland. He has published widely in cultural studies, including seven books. The most recent book is The Articulation of Memory and Desire (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2007). His work has been translated into Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. He has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Henan, Vienna and Wuhan.
Synopsis
Story's 5th edition of this market leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory through popular culture.
- Extensively revised, rewritten and updated to offer better value and a wider knowledge base for the student
- Improved and expanded content throughout including:
New chapter on Race, racism and representation
New sections on The Panoptic Machine and Convergence Culture
- Continued explicit links to the new edition companion reader Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: a reader
- More illustrative diagrams and images to ensure that theory is brought to life, allowing students to draw comparisons between theory and practice
- Fully revised, improved and updated companion website providing practice and extension promote further understanding of the study of cultural theory and popular culture
Synopsis
This extensively revised and updated 5th edition of Storey's market-leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory. Popular culture is used to critically examine the theories and main approaches of cultural theory, and ensures that the accessible approach of previous editions is retained. Content has been expanded and widely illustrated throughout, and relevant and appropriate examples from the field of popular culture help to exemplify how theory relates to practice. New chapters include coverage of topics such as race, racism and representation; the text is supported by the fully revised and improved companion website that encourages further independent study and helps the student to grasp a broad and widely relevant understanding of cultural theory.
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.
Table of Contents
1. What is popular culture? Culture.
Ideology.
Popular culture.
Popular culture as other.
Further reading.
2. The culture and civilization tradition.
Matthew Arnold.
Leavisism.
Mass culture in America: the post-war debate.
The culture of other people.
Further reading.
3. Culturalism.
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.
Further reading.
4. Marxisms.
Classical Marxism.
The Frankfurt School.
Althusserianism.
Hegemony.
Post-Marxism and cultural studies.
Further reading.
5. Psychoanalysis.
Freudian psychoanalysis.
Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Cine-psychoanalysis.
Slavoj Zizek and Lacanian fantasy.
Further reading.
6. Structuralism and post-structuralism.
Ferdinand de Saussure.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western.
Roland Barthes: Mythologies.
Post-structuralism.
Jacques Derrida.
Discourse and power: Michel Foucault.
Further reading.
7. Gender and sexuality.
Feminisms.
Women at the cinema.
Readingromance.
Watching Dallas.
Readingwomens magazines.
Mens studies and masculinities.
Queer theory.
Further reading.
8. Race, racism and representation.
Race and racism.
The ideology of racism: its historical emergence.
Orientalism.
Anti-racism and cultural studies.
Further reading.
9. Postmodernism.
The postmodern condition.
Postmodernism in the 1960s.
Jean-François Lyotard.
Jean Baudrillard.
Fredric Jameson.
Postmodern pop music.
Postmodern television.
Postmodernism and the pluralism of value.
The global postmodern.
Convergence culture.
Afterword.
Further reading.
10. The politics of the popular.
A paradigm crisis in cultural studies?
The cultural field.
The economic field.
Post-Marxist cultural studies: hegemony revisited.
The ideology of mass culture.
Further reading.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.