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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture is an introduction in that it tries to be accessible in terms of subject matter, but it is…

The popular culture of the majority has always been a concern of powerful minorities. Those with political power have always thought it necessary…

In this chapter I shall consider the work produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, E.P. Thompson,…

Marxism is a difficult and contentious body of work. But it is also more than this: it is a body of revolutionary theory…

In this chapter I shall explore psychoanalysis as a method of reading texts and practices. This means that although I shall to a…

Structuralism, unlike the other approaches discussed here, is, as Terry Eagleton (1983) points out, ‘quite indifferent to the cultural value of its object:…

In a book on cultural theory and popular culture why concern ourselves with social class? One answer is to say that class has…

‘One of the most striking changes in the humanities in the 1980s has been the rise of gender as a category of analysis’…

In this chapter I shall examine the concept of ‘race’ and the historical development of racism in England. I shall then explore a…

Postmodernism is a term current inside and outside the academic study of popular culture. It has entered discourses as different as pop music…

This chapter will examine popular culture as material culture. However we define it, a great deal of popular culture takes material form. Even…

I have tried in this book to outline something of the history of the relationship between cultural theory and popular culture. In the…

It is from our working with nature that we derive our concept of culture. Its origins can be seen in words like agriculture…