Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader - Couverture souple

Storey, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745015514 ISBN 13 : 9780745015514

Editeur : Prentice-Hall, 1994

Synopsis

The aim of this reader is twofold; on the one hand, it is designed as a companion volume to John Storey's "An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture" and on the other, as a free-standing, theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture within cultural studies. The first six parts each contain a representative selection of readings from a particular approach to popular culture: culture and civilization tradition; culturalism; structuralism and post-structuralism; marxism; feminism and postmodernism. These sections chart the theoretical development of the study of popular culture within cultural studies and provide examples of the analysis of the texts and practices of popular culture from within each specific tradition. The final section contains readings from recent debates on the study of popular culture.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

The new 3rd edition of John Storey’s successful reader in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture is a companion volume to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, now in its 4th edition. The Reader offers students the opportunity to experience at first hand the theorists and critics discussed in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. It can be used both in conjunction with and independently of the textbook.

 

Taken as a whole, the reader provides a theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues to cultural studies today.

 

New to this edition:

 

• 4 new readings – Stuart Hall The rediscovery of ‘ideology’: return of the repressed in media studies
  Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe Post-Marxism without apologies
  Judith Butler Imitation and Gender Insubordination
  Savoj Zizek From Reality to the Real
• fully revised general and section introductions from the editor, contextualising and linking the readings with key issues from the textbook
• full 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.

 

John Storey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland. He has published widely in cultural studies, including six books. The most recent book is called Inventing Popular Culture (Blackwell, 2003). His work has been translated into Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. He is a Visiting Professor at the universities of Henan and Wuhan.

 

Présentation de l'éditeur

This reader in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture is a companion volume to An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, now in its 4th edition (2006). The Reader offers students the opportunity to experience at first hand the theorists and critics discussed in An Introduction. It can be used both in conjunction with and independently of the textbook. Taken as a whole, the reader provides a theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues to cultural studies today.

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prentice-Hall
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0745015514
• ISBN 13: 9780745015514
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible