Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-225) and index

WHAT IS POPULAR CULTURE? *Culture *Ideology *Popular Culture *Conclusion *Further Reading *THE CULTURE AND CIVILISATION *TRADITION *Matthew Arnold *Leavisism *Mass Culture in America: the Post-war Debate *The Culture of Other People *Further Reading. *CULTURALISM *Richard Hoggart *Raymond Williams *E.P. Thompson *Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel *The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies *Further Reading *STRUCTURALISM AND POST- STRUCTURALISM *Ferdinand de Saussure. *Claude Levi- Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western *Roland Barthes. *Post-structuralism *Jacques Derrida *Jacques Lacan *Discourse and Power: Michel Foucault and Edward Said *Further Reading *MARXISM *Classical Marxism *The Frankfurt School *Althusserianism *Hegemony Theory *The Carnivalesque *Further Reading *FEMINISM *Feminisms *Cultural Politics, Laura Mulvey, Janice Radway, Janice Winship, Ien Ang *The Other Gender: Men's Studies and Masculinity *Conclusion *Further Reading. *POSTMODERNISM *The Postmodern Condition *Postmodernism in the 1960s. *Jean-Francois Lyotard *Jean Baudrillard *Fredric Jameson *Postmodern Pop. *Postmodern Television *Conclusion *Further Reading *CONSUMING POPULAR CULTURE *Theories of Cultural Consumption *Subcultural Consumption. *Reading Formations *Fan Culture *Shopping as Popular Culture *Further Reading *THE POLITICS OF THE POPULAR *A Paradigm Crisis in Cultural Studies *The Cultural Field *The Economic Field *A Return to Hegemony. *The Ideology of Mass Culture *Further Reading

In this second edition of his successful An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, John Storey has revised the text throughout. As before the book presents a clear and critical survey of the competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture