Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

Name: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780815393535
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The fifth edition of Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader by John Storey serves as an essential companion to the eighth edition of Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. It offers students direct access to key theorists and critics over more than a century of cultural theory through pivotal articles and essays. The volume provides a comprehensive theoretical, analytical, and historical foundation in the study of popular culture, with updated introductions and a revised bibliography.

This edition includes new sections on class, expanded readings on sexuality and gender, and revised contextual introductions, making it a vital resource for students in cultural, media, communication, and sociology of culture studies.
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Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, sociology of culture, and related disciplines.

The fifth edition of John Storey’s successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Reader is an essential companion volume to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, now in its eighth edition.

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The fifth edition of John Storey’s successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader is an essential companion volume to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, now in its eighth edition. The reader offers students the opportunity to experience first-hand the theorists and critics discussed in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction through crucial articles and essays spanning over a hundred years of cultural theory. It can be used both in conjunction with, and independently of, the textbook.

Taken as a whole, this book provides a theoretical, analytical, and historical introduction to the study of popular culture and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues in cultural studies.

This edition includes:

a new section on class, as well as additional readings on sexuality and gender;
fully revised general and section introductions from the editor, contextualising and linking the readings with key issues from the textbook;
a fully updated bibliography.

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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Graeme Turner from University of Queensland praises the revised edition for its fresh contextualisation and strengthened focus on class, endorsing it as a fundamental resource for cultural studies students. Toby Miller of Loughborough University highlights Storey's global renown and describes the Reader as ideal for teaching, researching, and refreshing knowledge.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780815393535

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 December 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 5th edition

Contributors:

Edited by John Storey

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1315g

Pages: 682

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About the Author

John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK. He has published extensively in cultural studies, and is currently working on his thirteenth book, Refusing To Be Realistic: Cultural Studies and Utopian Desire. His work has been translated into multiple languages and he has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Vienna, Henan, and Wuhan, and a Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Dresden. He is currently Chair Professor of the Changjiang Scholar Programme, Shaanxi Normal University, China.