Table of contents:
Introduction: Part One: Theoretical Politics: 1. Populism and Ordinary Culture: Bourdieu's Paradox, Populist Sentiment, `Culture is Ordinary', `Between the Grand Old Cause and the Brand New Times' 2. Trajectories of Cultural Populism: `Unbending the Springs of Action', From Hegemony Theory to the New Revisionism, Questioning Populism: Part Two: Analytical Objects: 3. Youth Culture and Consumption: Analysing Subculture, Studying Resistance, Gendering Youth, Consuming Passions 4. Popular Television: Watching Telly, Soaping Feminism, Child-Minding, Switiching Channels: Part Three: Contemporary Issues: 5. Dilemmas of Culture and Politics: ‘Sun’-Setting, Censoring Pornography, Author-Killing 6. Anomie of the People: Living in the (Post?)Modern World, Changing Identities, Writing on the Wall, Conclusion - Critical Renewal
Assured, generous and expansive, this book fills a huge gap in the study of popular culture by providing the first comprehensive critical assessment of the cultural studies tradition. McGuigan provides first rate commentaries on the work of Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, John Fiske, `the Birmingham Scghool', youth subcultural analysis, popular television study and issues generally concerned with public communication.
Cultural Populism fills a huge gap in the study of popular culture by providing the first comprehensive critical assessment of the cultural studies tradition.
Introduction: Part One: Theoretical Politics: 1. Populism and Ordinary Culture: Bourdieu's Paradox, Populist Sentiment, `Culture is Ordinary', `Between the Grand Old Cause and the Brand New Times' 2. Trajectories of Cultural Populism: `Unbending the Springs of Action', From Hegemony Theory to the New Revisionism, Questioning Populism: Part Two: Analytical Objects: 3. Youth Culture and Consumption: Analysing Subculture, Studying Resistance, Gendering Youth, Consuming Passions 4. Popular Television: Watching Telly, Soaping Feminism, Child-Minding, Switiching Channels: Part Three: Contemporary Issues: 5. Dilemmas of Culture and Politics: ‘Sun’-Setting, Censoring Pornography, Author-Killing 6. Anomie of the People: Living in the (Post?)Modern World, Changing Identities, Writing on the Wall, Conclusion - Critical Renewal
Assured, generous and expansive, this book fills a huge gap in the study of popular culture by providing the first comprehensive critical assessment of the cultural studies tradition. McGuigan provides first rate commentaries on the work of Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, John Fiske, `the Birmingham Scghool', youth subcultural analysis, popular television study and issues generally concerned with public communication.
Cultural Populism fills a huge gap in the study of popular culture by providing the first comprehensive critical assessment of the cultural studies tradition.