Whether used on its own or in conjunction with Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, this reader is a theoretical, analytical, and historical introduction to the study of popular culture within cultural studies. The readings cover the culture and civilization tradition, culturalism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism, as well as current debates in the study of popular culture.

New to this edition:Four new readings by Stuart Hall, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, and Savoj ŽižekFully revised general and section introductions that contextualize and link the readings with key issues in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An IntroductionFully updated bibliography

Ideal for courses in:cultural studiesmedia studiescommunication studiessociology of culturepopular culturevisual studiescultural criticism

Contributions by: F. R. Leavis, John Storey, Cornel West, bell hooks, Matthew Arnold, Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, E.P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, Paddy Whannel, Paul Gilroy, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Theodor W. Adorno, Antonio Gramsci, Tony Bennett, Christine Gledhill, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Ien Ang, Lana F. Rakow, Janice Radway, Yvonne Tasker, Jacqueline Bobo, Christine Geraghty, Judith Butler, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, Will Wright, Pierre Macherey, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Chris Weedon, Slavoj Zizek, Jean Baudrillard, Barbara Creed, Meaghan Morris, Dick Hebdige, Elizabeth Wilson, Andrew Goodwin, Pierre Bourdieu, Paul DiMaggio, Terry Lovell, Michel de Certeau, Michael Schudson, John Fiske, Paul Willis, Duncan Webster, Jim McGuigan, Nicholas Garnham, Lawrence Grossberg, Simon Frith