Cultural Theory and Popular Culture A Reader

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

John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK. He has published extensively in cultural studies, and is currently working on his thirteenth book, Refusing To Be Realistic: Cultural Studies and Utopian Desire. His work has been translated into multiple languages and he has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Vienna, Henan, and Wuhan, and a Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Dresden. He is currently Chair Professor of the Changjiang Scholar Programme, Shaanxi Normal University, China.