Preface

Introduction: The Study of Popular Culture and Cultural Studies

Part One: The `Culture and Civilisation' Tradition

Introduction

Culture and Anarchy

Matthew Arnold

Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture

F. R. Leavis

A Theory of Mass Culture

Dwight Macdonald

Part Two: Culturalism

Introduction

The Full Rich Life & The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets

Richard Hoggart

The Analysis of Culture

Raymond Williams

Preface from The Making of the English Working Class

E. P. Thompson

The Young Audience

Stuart Hall

Paddy Whannel

Working-Class Culture and Working-Class Politics in London, 1870--1900: Notes on the Remaking of a Working Class

Gareth Stedman Jones

`Get up, get into it and get involved'- Soul, Civil Rights and Black Power

Paul Gilroy

Part Three: Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Introduction

The Dream-Work

Sigmund Freud

Myth Today

Roland Barthes

The Structure of Myth & The Structure of the Western Film

Will Wright

Jules Verne: The Faulty Narrative

Pierre Macherey

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

Louis Althusser

Method

Michel Foucault

Feminism & The Principles of Poststructuralism

Chris Weedon

Part Four: Marxism

Introduction

Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas

Karl Marx

Frederick Engels

Base and Superstructure

Karl Marx

Letter to Joseph Bloch

Frederick Engels

On Popular Music

Theodor W. Adorno

Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State

Antonio Gramsci

Popular Culture and the `turn to Gramsci'

Tony Bennett

Rockin' Hegemony: West Coast Rock and Amerika's War in Vietnam

John Storey

Pleasurable Negotiations

Christine Gledhill

Carnival and Carnivalesque

Mikhail Bakhtin

Part Five: Feminism

Introduction

Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture

Ien Ang

Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy its Due

Lana F. Rakow

Reading Reading the Romance

Janice Radway

The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers

Jacqueline Bobo

Soap Opera and Utopia

Christine Geraghty

Feminist Crime Writing: The Politics of Genre

Yvonne Tasker

Feminism and Popular Culture

Morag Shiach

Part Six: Postmodernism

Introduction

The Precession of Simulacra

Jean Baudrillard

From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism

Barbara Creed

Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism

Meaghan Morris

Postmodernism and `The Other Side'

Dick Hebdige

Black Postmodernist Practices

Cornel West

Anders Stephanson

Fashion and Postmodernism

Elizabeth Wilson

Popular Music and Postmodern Theory

Andrew Goodwin

Postmodern Blackness

bell hooks

Part Seven: The Politics of the Popular

Introduction

Distinction & The Aristocracy of Culture

Pierre Bourdieu

Notes on Deconstructing `the Popular'

Stuart Hall

Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: the Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America

Paul DiMaggio

Cultural Production

Terry Lovell

The Practice of Everyday Life

Michael de Certeau

The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and Sentimentality in Academia

Michael Schudson

The Popular Economy

John Fiske

Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure

Ien Ang

`High Culture' Revisited

Jostein Gripsrud

Symbolic Creativity

Paul Willis

Pessimism, Optimism, Pleasure: The Future of Cultural Studies

Duncan Webster

The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent: Defending Popular Culture from the Populists

Simon Frith

Trajectories of Cultural Populism

Jim McGuigan

Political Economy and Cultural Studies: Reconciliation or Divorce?

Nicholas Garnham

Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy: Is Anybody Else Bored with this Debate?

Lawrence Grossberg

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index