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• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Endorsements Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Preface/Acknowledgements
• Publisher’s acknowledgements
• 1 What is popular culture?
• Culture
• Ideology
• Popular culture
• Popular culture as other
• The contextuality of meaning
• Notes
• Further reading
• 2 The ‘culture and civilization’ tradition
• Matthew Arnold
• Leavisism
• Mass culture in America: the post-war debate
• The culture of other people
• Notes
• Further reading
• 3 Culturalism into cultural studies
• 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
• Notes
• Further reading
• 4 Marxisms
• Classical Marxism
• The English Marxism of William Morris
• The Frankfurt School
• Althusserianism
• Hegemony
• Post-Marxism and cultural studies
• Utopian Marxism
• Notes
• Further reading
• 5 Psychoanalysis
• Freudian psychoanalysis
• Lacanian psychoanalysis
• Cine-psychoanalysis
• Slavoj Žižek and Lacanian fantasy
• Notes
• Further reading
• 6 Structuralism and post-structuralism
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western
• Roland Barthes: Mythologies
• Post-structuralism
• Jacques Derrida
• Discourse and power: Michel Foucault
• The panoptic machine
• Notes
• Further reading
• 7 Class and class struggle
• Class and popular culture
• Class in cultural studies
• Class struggle
• Consumption as class distinction
• Class and popular culture
• The ideological work of meritocracy
• Notes
• Further reading
• 8 Gender and sexuality
• Feminisms
• Women at the cinema
• Reading romance
• Watching Dallas
• Reading women’s magazines
• Post-feminism
• Men’s studies and masculinities
• Queer theory
• Intersectionality
• Notes
• Further reading
• 9 ‘Race’, racism and representation
• ‘Race’ and racism
• The ideology of racism: its historical emergence
• Orientalism
• Whiteness
• Anti-racism and cultural studies
• Black Lives Matter
• Notes
• Further reading
• 10 Postmodernism
• The postmodern condition
• Postmodernism in the 1960s
• Jean-François Lyotard
• Jean Baudrillard
• Fredric Jameson
• Postmodernism and the pluralism of value
• The global postmodern
• Afterword
• Notes
• Further reading
• 11 The materiality of popular culture
• Materiality
• Materiality as actor
• Meaning and materiality
• Materiality without meaning
• Material objects in a global world
• Notes
• Further reading
• 12 The politics of the popular
• The cultural field
• The economic field
• Post-Marxist cultural studies: hegemony revisited
• The ideology of mass culture
• Notes
• Further reading
• 13 Culture and nature
• Nature in culture
• The Anthropocene
• The Capitalocene
• Popular culture and climate change
• Notes
• Further reading
• Bibliography
• Index