1 What is popular culture？ 1
Culture 1
Ideology 2
Popular culture 5
Popular culture as other 13
Further reading 14
2 The ‘culture and civilization’ tradition 17
Matthew Arnold 18
Leavisism 22
Mass culture in America：the post-war debate 28
The culture of other people 33
Further reading 35
3 Culturalism 37
Richard Hoggart：The Uses of Literacy 38
Raymond Williams：‘The analysis of culture’ 44
E.P.Thompson：The Making of the English Working Class 49
Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel：The Popular Arts 51
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 57
Further reading 58
4 Marxisms 59
Classical Marxism 59
The English Marxism of William Morris 62
The Frankfurt School 64
Althusserianism 72
Hegemony 82
Post-Marxism and cultural studies 84
Further reading 91
5 Psychoanalysis 93
Freudian psychoanalysis 93
Lacanian psychoanalysis 103
Cine-psychoanalysis 106
Slavoj Zizek and Lacanian fantasy 109
Further reading 111
6 Structuralism and post-structuralism 113
Ferdinand de Saussure 113
Claude Levi-Strauss，Will Wright and the American Western 116
Roland Barthes：Mythologies 120
Post-structuralism 128
Jacques Derrida 128
Discourse and power：Michel Foucault 130
The panoptic machine 132
Further reading 135
7 Gender and sexuality 137
Feminisms 137
Women at the cinema 138
Reading romance 142
Watching Dallas 149
Reading women’s magazines 155
Post-feminism 160
Men’s studies and masculinities 163
Queer theory 164
Further reading 168
8 ‘Race’，racism and representation 171
‘Race’ and racism 171
The ideology of racism：its historical emergence 173
Orientalism 176
Whiteness 183
Anti-racism and cultural studies 184
Further reading 185
9 Postmodernism 187
The postmodern condition 187
Postmodernism in the 1960s 188
Jean-Francois Lyotard 190
Jean Baudrillard 192
Fredric Jameson 197
Postmodern pop music 203
Postmodern television 204
Postmodernism and the pluralism of value 207
The global postmodern 210
Convergence culture 216
AfteRWord 217
Further reading 217
10 The politics of the popular 219
The cultural fiield 221
The economic fiield 232
Post-Marxist cultural studies：hegemony revisited 238
The ideology of mass culture 239
Further reading 241
Notes 243
Bibliography 247
Index 261