Cultural Theory And Popular Culture: An Introduction

Storey (cultural studies, U. of Sunderland) has added new material on psychoanalysis, post-Marxism and global postmodernism along with closer links to the companion reader. Writing for graduate as well as undergraduate students, he begins by describing popular culture as "other," them moves to the "culture and civilization" tradition of Matthew Arnold and post-war mass culture in America, culturalism (explaining key concepts from Hoggart, Raymond Williams, E.P. Thompson, and Hall and Whannel), classical and modified Marxism, structuralism and post-structuralism (Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault and Said), gender and sexuality, postmodernism (Lyotard, Baudrillard, Jameson and postmodern pop music), and the politics of the popular. He provides a number of supporting resources including online materials. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)