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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 th

    Trade Review

    'Freshly contextualised, and featuring an enhanced emphasis on class as well as significant new readings, this revised edition of Storey’s classic collection of foundational readings will reconfirm the book’s status as a fundamental resource for students of cultural studies.'
    Graeme Turner, University of Queensland

    ‘John Storey’s work on popular culture is justly renowned the world over. This latest edition of his Reader is a landmark event. Ideal for teaching, researching, refreshing.'
    Toby Miller, Loughborough University



    Table of Contents

    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

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      Publication Date: 12/10/2018 12:00:00 AM
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      Book Synopsis

      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 th

        Trade Review

        'Freshly contextualised, and featuring an enhanced emphasis on class as well as significant new readings, this revised edition of Storey’s classic collection of foundational readings will reconfirm the book’s status as a fundamental resource for students of cultural studies.'
        Graeme Turner, University of Queensland

        ‘John Storey’s work on popular culture is justly renowned the world over. This latest edition of his Reader is a landmark event. Ideal for teaching, researching, refreshing.'
        Toby Miller, Loughborough University



        Table of Contents

        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

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