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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 Britain (1992).

To the memory of my mother,

Francesca Aloyisia Maria Strinati (1916–1984),

my father, Giovanni (John) Strinati (1913–1990), and

my brother, John Edward Strinati (1950–1957).

An Introduction to

Theories of Popular

Culture

Second Edition

Dominic Strinati

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 1995

by Routledge

Second edition published 2004 by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British

Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Strinati, Dominic.

An introduction to theories of popular culture/

Dominic Strinati—

2nd ed.

p. cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Popular culture. I. Title

HM621.S834 2004

306–dc22 2003026815

ISBN 0-203-64516-2 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-67292-5 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-23499-9 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-23500-6 (pbk)

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