An introductory guide to cultural theory and popular culture Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	What is popular culture?	1
	Culture	2
	Ideology	2
	Popular culture	6
2	The 'culture and civilization' tradition	20
	Matthew Arnold	21
	Leavisism	27
	Mass culture in America: the post-war debate	33
	The culture of other people	40
3	Culturalism	43
	Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy	44
	Raymond Williams: The Long Revolution	51
	E.P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class	57
	Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel: The Popular Arts	60
	The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies	66
4	Structuralism and post-structuralism	69
	Ferdinand de Saussure	69
	Claude Levi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western	73
	Roland Barthes	77
	Post-structuralism	85
	Jacques Derrida	86
	Jacques Lacan	88
	Discourse and power: Michel Foucault and Edward Said	91
5	Marxism	97
	Classical Marxism	97
	The Frankfurt School	100
	Althusserianism	110
	Hegemony theory	118
6	Feminism	125
	Feminisms	125
	Cultural politics	126
	Laura Mulvey: 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema'	129
	Janice Radway: Leading the Romance	132
	Ien Ang: Watching Dallas	139
	Janice Winship: Inside Women's Magazines	146
	The other gender: men's studies and masculinity	150
7	Postmodernism	154
	The postmodern condition	154
	Postmodernism in the 1960s	155
	Jean-Francois Lyotard	159
	Jean Baudrillard	162
	Fredric Jameson	166
	Postmodern pop	172
	Postmodern television	176
8	The politics of the popular	181
	A paradigm crisis in cultural studies	182
	The cultural field	184
	The economic field	193
	A return to hegemony	199
	The ideology of mass culture	200
	Journals on cultural theory and popular culture	203
	Notes	204
	Index	229