An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
by John Storey
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Revised and updated to present a survey of the competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture, this work covers culture and civilization tradition, the American mass culture debate, structuralism and post-structuralism all the way through to post-modernism. It includes a chapter on Consuming Popular Culture, and a section on the carnivalesque in Marxism.Tags
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John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK, and Chair Professor of the Changjiang Scholar Programme at the Comparative Cultural Studies Centre, Shaanxi Normal University, China. He has published widely in cultural studies, including twenty-six show more books. The most recent is Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies (2019). show less
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- 1993
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Sociology, Philosophy, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 306.01 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Culture--philosophy
- LCC
- CB19 .S744 — Auxiliary Sciences of History History of Civilization History of Civilization
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