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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 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.

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader

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