A reader on popular culture
Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are mass culture, the Frankfurt School and the culture industry, semiology and structuralism, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism and cultural populism.
This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory.
Presents a detailed critical survey of competing theories of, and approaches to, popular culture. Storey charts the changing relationship between cultural theory and popular culture, mapping the relationship between the...
208 ; Schutz , Vernacular Books , pp . 72-73 . Editions of the Roman de la Rose in its " ancient language " : fourteen between 1481 and 1528 in Paris and Lyon ; three prose versions " moralised " by Jean de Molinet , 1500-1521 ...
BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- WHY FISKE STILL MATTERS -- READING FISKE AND UNDERSTANDING THE POPULAR -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- 1 THE JEANING OF AMERICA -- 2 COMMODITIES AND CULTURE -- 3 ...
This second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework.
Adorno, T., 110±12 agency, 4, 5, 84, 132, 163, 164 Althusser, L., 2, 34, 37, 41, 98 anchorage, 108 Ang, I., 25±31, 35, 67, 70, 100, 158 Appleby, J., 131 Arnold, M., 2 articulation, 4 audiences, 21, 68, 69, 81, 86, 147 Bakhtin, M., ...
Providing a comprehensive collection of classic and current papers on popular culture, this volume includes key works from Adorno to Williams, as well as a wide range of international perspectives that engage with the dynamic changes that ...
" Catherine Driscoll begins by identifying a genealogy of "girlhood" or "feminine adolescence," and then argues that both "girls" and "culture" as ideas are too problematic to fulfill any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of ...
Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.