Cultural Theory and Popular Culture:A Reader

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Features

• The text includes four new readings:

1). Stuart Hall, What Is This ‘Black’ in Black Popular Culture
2). Amir Saeed, Musical Jihad
3). Neil Perryman,  Dr Who and the Convergence of Media
4). Jim Collins, Genericity in the Nineties

• Fully revised general and section introductions from the editor, contextualise and link the readings with key issues from the textbook
• A fully updated bibliography is provided

New to this Edition

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

Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Publisher's Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Study of Popular Culture and Cultural Studies

Part One:  The 'Culture and Civilization' Tradition

Introduction

1. Matthew Arnold  Culture and Anarchy

2. F.R.  Leavis         Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture

Part Two: Culturalism

Introduction

3. Richard Hoggart   The Full Rich Life & The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets

4. Raymond Williams  The Analysis of Culture

5.  E.P. Thompson  Preface from The Making of the English Woking Class

6.  Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel  The Young Audience

Part Three:  Marxism

Introduction

7. Karl Marx and Frederick Engles  Ruling Class and Rudling Ideas

8.  Karl Marx  Base and Superstructure

9. Frederick Engels  Letter to Joseph Bloch

10. Theodor W. Adornon  On Popular Music

11. Antonio Gramsci  Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State

12. Tony Bennett  Popular Culture and the 'turn of Gramsci'

13. John Storey  Rockin' Hegemony: West Coast Rock and Amerika's War in Vietnam

14.  Christine Gledhill Pleasurable Negotiations

15. Stuart Hall The Rediscovery of 'Ideology': Return of the Repressed in Media Studies

16. Ernesto Laclau with Chantal Mouffe Post-Marxism without Apologies

Part Four: Feminism

Introduction

17. Ien Ang  Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture

18. Lana F. Rakow  Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due

19. Janice Radway Reading Reading the Romance

20. Christine Geraghty Soap Opera and Utopia

21. Judith Butler  Imitation and Gender Insubordination

Part Five: Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Post-structuralism

Introduction

22. Sigmund Freud The Dream-Work

23. Jacques Lacan The Mirror Stage

24. Roland Barthes Myth Today

25. Will Wright The Structure of Myth & The Structure of the Western Film

26. Pierre Macherey  Jules Verne: The Faulty Narrative

27. Louis Althusser   Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

28. Michel Foucault   Method

29. Chris Weedon   Feminism & The Principle of Poststructuralism

30. Slavoj Zizek   From Reality to the Real

Part Six:  'Race', Racism and Representation

Introduction

Paul Gilroy  'Get up, get into it and get involved' - Soul, Civil Rights and Black Power

32. Jacqueline Bobo The Color Purple: Black Women and Cultural Readers

33. Stuart Hall What is this 'Black' in Black Popular Culture?

34. Cornel West (interviewed by Anders Stephanson) Black Postmodernist Practices

35. Bell Hooks Postmodern Blackness

36. Amir Saeed Musical Jihad

Part Seven: Postmodenism

Introduction

37. Jean Baudrillard  The Precession of Simulacra

38. Barbara Creed  From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism

39. Meaghan Morris  Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism

40. Dick Hebige  Postmodernism and 'The Other Side'

41. Elizabeth Wilson  Fashion and Postmodernism

42. Jim Collins  Genericity in the Nineties

43. Neil Perryman Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media

Part Eight: The Politics of the Popular

Introudction

44. Pierre Bourdieu  Distinction & The Aristocracy of Culture

45. Stuart Hall Notes on Deconstructing 'the Popular'

46. Paul DiMaggio Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creaion of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America

47. Terry Lovell Cultural Production

48. Michel de Certeau  The Practice of Everyday Life

49. Michael Schudson  The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and Sentimentality in Academia

50. John Fiske The Popular Economy

51. Ien Ang  Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure

52. Duncan Webster  Pessimism, Optimism, Pleasure:  The Future of Cultural Studies

53. Jim McGuigan  Trajectories of Cultural Populism

54. Nicholas Garnham  Political Economy and Cultural Studies:  Reconciliation or Divorce?

55. Lawrence Grossberg  Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy:  Is Anybody Else Bored with this Debate?

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover

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.

 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 called 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.