Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction

Book Description
This new edition of John Storey’s widely adopted introduction to cultural theory and popular culture has been extensively revised throughout. Like previous editions, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Retaining its accessible approach and using relevant, up-to-date examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition is essential for those who study and teach cultural theory and popular culture.

From the Publisher
A leading cultural studies textbook--now revised and updated

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Features • Extensively revised and updated throughout • New section on queer theory • Expanded sections on reading romance, reading women’s magazines, feminism as social practice, and men’s studies and masculinities • Illustrations added for the first time • List of relevant web sites • New companion web site specifically designed to promote further understanding of the study of cultural theory and popular culture

About the Author
John Storey is a professor of cultural studies and director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, England. His works include a companion volume to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, which is titled Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (Georgia), and Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture (Georgia).


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The new edition is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, the sociology of culture, popular culture and other related subjects.


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