本书的主题力图揭示文化原理与通俗文化之间的关系,分析通俗文化在当今社会观念体系发生作用的机理,同时介绍了文化原理与通俗各个流派的理论和分析方法,并在每章结尾提供了全面丰富的阅读材料。经过广泛修政的第三版,新增加了同性恋理论,对浪漫文学,女性杂志,女权主义的社会实践,男性研究进行了扩展,补充了新的材料和插图。本书适合文化研究,媒体研究,传播学、文化社会学、通俗文化等专业的大学本科生和研究生学习使用。

In writing the third edition I have sought to improve and to expand the material in the first two editions of this book. To achieve this I have revised and I have rewritten; much more extensively than in the second edition. I have also added new material to most of the chapters (the book has grown from a first edition of around 65,000 words to a third edition in excess of 100,000 words). This is most evident in the renamed, and reorganised, Chapter 6, where I have added a new section on Queer Theory, and where I have extended the section on Reading Women's Magazines. Perhaps the most visible change is the addition of illustrations, and the inclusion of a list of web sites useful to the student of cultural theory and popular culture.

Preface to First Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to Third Edition
Acknowledgements
1 What is Popular Culture?
Culture
Ideology
Popular Culture
Popular Culture as Other
Further Reaking
2 The ‘Culture and Civilization’Tradition
Matthew Arnold
Leavisism
Mass Culture in America:the Post-war Debate
The Culture of Other People
Further Reading
3 Culturalism
Richard Hoggart : The Uses of Literacy
Raymond Williams : The Analysis of Culture’
E.P.Thompson:The Making of the English Working Class
Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel : The Popular Arts
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Further Reading
4 Structuralism and Post-structuralism
Ferdinand de Saussure
Claude Lévi-Strauss,Will Wright and the American Western
Roland Barthes:Mythologies
Post-Structuralism
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Lacan
Discourse and Power:Michel Foucault and Edward Said
Further Reading
5 Marxisms
Classical Marxism
The Frankfurt School
Althusserianism
Neo-Gramscian Cultural Studies
Popular Culture and the Carnivalesque
Further Reading
6 Gender and Sexuality
Feminisms
Popular Film, Cine-psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies
Reading Romance
Watching Dallas
Reading Women's Magazines
Feminism as Social Practice
Men's Studies and Masculinities
Queer Theory
Further Reading
7 Postmodernism
The Postmodern Condition
Postmodernism in the 1960s
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Jean Baudrillard
Fredric Jameson
Postmodern Pop Music
Postmodern Television
Postmodernism and the Pluralism of Value
Further Reading
8 The Politics of the Popular
A Paradigm Crisis in Cultural Studies?
The Cultural Field
The Economic Field
Hegemony Revisited
The Ideology of Mass Culture
Further Reading
Journals on Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Web Sites
Notes
Index
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