An introduction to theories of popular culture

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Glavni autor: Strinati, Dominic (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: London ; New York : Routledge, cop. 1995.
Predmet:
Sadržaj:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Mass culture and popular culture
  • Mass culture and mass society
  • The mass culture debate
  • Mass culture and Americanisation
  • Americanisation and the critique of mass culture theory
  • A critique of mass culture theory
  • 2.The Frankfurt school and the culture industry
  • The origins of the Frankfurt school
  • The theory of commodity fetishism
  • The Frankfurt school's theory of modern capitalism
  • The culture industry
  • The culture industry and popular music
  • 'Adorno's theory of popular music, Cadillacs and Doo-wop'
  • The Frankfurt school: a critical assessment
  • 'Benjamin and the critique of the Frankfurt school'
  • 3. Structuralism, semiology and popular culture
  • Structural linguistics and the ideas of Saussure
  • Structuralism, culture and myth
  • Structuralism and James Bond
  • Barthes, semiology and popular culture
  • 'Barthes, structuralism and semiology'
  • 'Writing degree zero'
  • 'Myths and popular culture'
  • 'Burgeois men and women novelists'
  • Structuralism and semiology: some key problems
  • 'Lévy-Strauss's structuralism'
  • 'Roland Barthes's semiology'
  • 4. Marxism, political economy and ideology
  • Marx and ideology
  • Marxism and political economy
  • 'The limits of political economy'
  • Althusser's theory of ideology and structuralist Marxism
  • 'Althusser's Marxism: economic determinism and ideology'
  • Gramsci, Marxism and popular culture
  • Gramsci's concept of hegemony
  • Conclusions: Marxism, Gramscian Marxism and popular culture
  • 5. Feminism and popular culture
  • The feminist critique
  • 'Women and advertising'
  • The feminist analysis of popular culture
  • 'Feminism and mass culture'
  • 'Feminist theory and the critique of content analysis'
  • 'Feminist theory, patriarchy and psychoanalysis'
  • 'Feminist theoy and the study of ideology'
  • Feminist analysis, semiology and ideology'
  • Feminist analysis, ideology and audiences'
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Postmodernism and popular culture
  • What is postmodernism?
  • 'The breakdown of the distincion between culture and society'
  • 'The breakdown of the distinction art and popular culture'
  • 'Confusions over time and space'
  • 'The decline of metanarratives'
  • Contemporary popular culture and postmodernism
  • 'Architecture'
  • 'Cinema'
  • 'Television'
  • 'Advertising'
  • Pop music'
  • The emergence of postmodernism
  • 'Consumerism and media-saturation'
  • 'New middle-class occupations and consumer markets'
  • 'The erosion of personal and collective identities'
  • The limits of postmodernism
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 'Discourse and popular culture'
  • 'The 'dialogical' approach to popular culture'
  • 'Cultural populism'
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index