An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture 大众文化理论概论.pdf

An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture Second Edition An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is a clear and comprehensive guide to the major theories of popular culture, from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Dominic Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which theorists have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern society. Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are mass culture, the Frankfurt School and the culture industry, structuralism and semiology, Marxism, political economy and ideology, feminism, postmodernism and cultural populism. Strinati explains how theorists such as Adorno, Barthes, McRobbie and Hebdige have engaged with the many forms of popular culture, from jazz to popular television, and from teen magazines to the spy novel. The second edition has been revised and updated, with new material on Marxism and feminism, as well as an expanded discussion of recent theoretical developments, including the emergence of the idea of ‘cultural populism’. Each chapter includes a guide to key texts for further reading, and there is also a comprehensive bibliography. Dominic Strinati is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester. His previous work has been in the areas of political and industrial sociology, and he is at present researching into contemporary forums of popular culture. He is the author of An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture (2000) and coeditor, with Stephen Wagg, of Come on Down? Popular Media Culture in Post-war Brita