Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

In this tenth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines.

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John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK. He has published widely on cultural theory, popular culture, consumption and utopianism. He is the author of numerous books, including Theories of Consumption (Routledge, 2017), Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies: On Refusing to be Realistic (Routledge, 2019), Consuming Utopia: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Reading (Routledge, 2022) and Consumption (Routledge, 2023). He is also editor of The Making of English Popular Culture (Routledge, 2016) and Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (Routledge, 2019).

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Preface Acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements 1. What is popular culture? 2. The 'culture and civilization' tradition 3. Culturalism into cultural studies 4. Marxisms 5. Psychoanalysis 6. Structuralism and post-structuralism 7. Class and class struggle 8. Gender and sexuality 9. 'Race', racism and representation 10. Postmodernism 11. The materiality of popular culture 12. The politics of the popular 13. Culture and nature Bibliography Index