Cultural Theory and Popular Culture : An Introduction (Hardcover, 9 ed)

1. What is popular culture? Culture Ideology Popular culture Popular culture as other The contextuality of meaning Notes Further reading 2. The ‘culture and civilization’ tradition Matthew Arnold Leavisism Mass culture in America: the post-war debate The culture of other people Notes Further reading 3. Culturalism into cultural studies 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 of Contemporary Cultural Studies Notes Further Reading 4. Marxisms Classical Marxism The English Marxism of William Morris The Frankfurt School Althusserianism Hegemony Post-Marxism and cultural studies Utopian Marxism Notes Further Reading 5. Psychoanalysis Freudian psychoanalysis Lacanian psychoanalysis Cine-psychoanalysis Slavoj ?i?ek and Lacanian fantasy Notes Further Reading 6. Structuralism and post-structuralism Ferdinand de Saussure Claude Levi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western Roland Barthes: Mythologies Post-structuralism Jacques Derrida Discourse and power: Michel Foucault The panoptic machine Notes Further reading 7. Class and class struggle Class and popular culture Class in cultural studies Class struggle Consumption as class distinction Class and popular culture The ideological work of meritocracy Notes Further reading 8. Gender and Sexuality Feminisms Women at the cinema Reading romance Watching Dallas Reading women’s magazines Post-feminism Men’s studies and masculinities Queer theory Intersectionality Notes Further reading 9. ‘Race’, racism and representation ‘Race’ and racism The ideology of racism: its historical emergence Orientalism Whiteness Anti-racism and cultural studies Black Lives Matter Notes Further reading 10. Postmodernism The postmodern condition Postmodernism in the 1960s Jean-Francois Lyotard Jean Baudrillard Fredric Jameson Postmodernism and the pluralism of value The global postmodern Afterword Notes Further reading 11. The materiality of popular culture Materiality Materiality as actor Meaning and materiality Materiality without meaning Material objects in a global world Notes Further reading 12. The politics of the popular The cultural ?eld The economic ?eld Post-Marxist cultural studies: hegemony revisited The ideology of mass culture Notes Further reading