The fifth edition of John Storey's successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A 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, contextualizing and linking the readings with key issues from the textbook;
a 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.
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Study of Popular Culture and Cultural Studies
Part One: The 'Culture and Civilization' Tradition
Introduction
1. Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold
2. Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture F.R. Leavis
Part Two: Culturalism
Introduction
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 Making of the English Woking Class E.P. Thompson
6. The Young Audience Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel
Part Three: Marxism
Introduction
7. Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas Karl Marx and Frederick Engles
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 of Gramsci' Tony Bennett
13. Pleasurable Negotiations Christine Gledhill
14. The Rediscovery of 'Ideology': Return of the Repressed in Media Studies Stuart Hall
15. Post-Marxism without Apologies Ernesto Laclau with Chantal Mouffe
Part Four: Class and Class Struggle
Introduction
16. Class Raymond Williams
17. The Communist Manifesto: Bourgeois and proletarians Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
18. Distinction & The Aristocracy of Culture Pierre Bourdieu
19. The Upper Classes: Visibility, Adaptability and Change Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn
20. Meritocracy as Plutocracy: the Marketising of 'Equality' under Neoliberalism Jo Littler
Part Five: Gender & Sexuality
Introduction
21. Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due Lana F. Rakow
22. Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture Ien Ang
23. Reading Reading the Romance Janice Radway
24. Imitation and Gender Insubordination Judith Butler
25. What a Man's Gotta Do Anthony Easthope
26. Post-Feminism and Popular Culture Angela McRobbie
27. Blurred Lines: The Queer World of Bad Girls Vicky Ball
28. Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times Rosalind Gill
Part Six: Psychoanalysis
Introduction
29. The Dream-Work Sigmund Freud
30. The Mirror Stage Jacques Lacan
Part Seven: Structuralism and Post-structuralism
Introduction
31. Myth Today Roland Barthes
32. The Structure of Myth & The Structure of the Western Film Will Wright
33. Jules Verne: The Faulty Narrative Pierre Macherey
34. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Louis Althusser
35. Method Michel Foucault
36. Feminism & The Principles of Poststructuralism Chris Weedon
37. From Reality to the Real Slavoj Zizek
Part Eight: 'Race', Racism and Representation
Introduction
38. 'Get up, get into it and get involved' - Soul, Civil Rights and Black Power Paul Gilroy
39. The Color Purple: Black Women and Cultural Readers Jacqueline Bobo
40. What is this 'Black' in Black Popular Culture? Stuart Hall
41. Black Postmodernist Practices Cornel West (interviewed by Anders Stephanson)
42. Postmodern Blackness bell hooks
Part Nine: Postmodernism
Introduction
43. The Precession of Simulacra Jean Baudrillard
44. From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism Barbara Creed
45. Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism Meaghan Morris
46. Postmodernism and 'The Other Side' Dick Hebige
47. Fashion and Postmodernism Elizabeth Wilson
48. Genericity in the Nineties: Eclectic Irony and the New Sincerity Jim Collins
Part Ten: The Politics of the Popular
Introduction
49. Notes on Deconstructing 'the Popular' Stuart Hall
50. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America Paul DiMaggio
51. Cultural Production Terry Lovell
52. The Practice of Everyday Life Michel de Certeau
53. The Popular Economy John Fiske
54. Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure Ien Ang
Bibliography
Index
