Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction

John Storey

University of Georgia Press, 2006 - Social Science - 191 pages

In this new edition of his widely adopted "Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction," John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. Like previous editions, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture.

New to this edition: Extensively revised, rewritten, and updatedImproved and expanded content throughout including a new chapter on psychoanalysis and a new section on post-Marxism and the global postmodernCloser explicit links to the new edition companion reader "Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader"More illustrative diagrams and imagesFully revised, improved, and updated companion web site

Ideal for courses in: cultural studiesmedia studiescommunication studiessociology of culturepopular culturevisual studiescultural criticism

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User Review  - davidpwithun - LibraryThing

Storey gives a very interesting look at the developments in cultural theory regarding popular culture over the past century, from early movements like Leavisism through to modern Marxist and post ...

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User Review  - kaprogrammet - LibraryThing

This text brings together theories on popular culture including: what popular culture is; the "culture and civilisation" tradition; structuralism and post-structuralism; Marxisms; gender and sexuality; postmodernism; and the politics of culture. (Libris)

Contents

• Body: 1
• Back Matter: 173
• Index: 185

About the author

John Storey is a professor of cultural studies and director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, England. He is also a visiting professor at the universities of Henan and Wuhan in China. Storey has published widely in cultural studies; his six books include Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture (Georgia). His work has been translated into Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction
• Author: John Storey
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0820328391, 9780820328393
• Length: 191 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Popular Culture; Social Science / Sociology / General