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236 Chapter 10 The politics of the popular Gray, Ann and Jim McGuigan (eds), Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader, London: Edward Arnold, 1993. A good selection of material from many of the leading figures in the field. Grossberg, Lawrence, Bringing it all Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1997. An excellent collection of theoretical essays by one of the leading figures in cultural studies. Grossberg, Lawrence, Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays on Popular Culture, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1997. An excellent collection of essays on popular culture by one of the leading figures in cultural studies. Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler (eds), Cultural Studies, London: Routledge, 1992. The collection consists of forty essays (most followed by discussion). An excellent introduction to relatively recent debates in cultural studies. Morley, David and Kuan-Hsing Chen (eds), Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, London: Routledge, 1995. This is a brilliant book. It brings together interviews and essays (on and by Stuart Hall). Together they weave an image of the past, present and possible future of cultural studies. Munns, Jessica and Gita Rajan, A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice, New York: Longman, 1995. Well organized, with a good selection of interesting essays. Storey, John (ed.), What is Cultural Studies? A Reader, London: Edward Arnold, 1996. An excellent collection of essays that in different ways attempt to answer the question, ‘What is cultural studies?’
Notes 1. For a discussion of Shakespeare as popular culture in nineteenth-century America, see Lawrence Levine (1988). 2. Slavoj yizek (1991) identifies the retroactive evaluation which fixed film noir’s current status: ‘It started to exist only when it was discovered by French critics in the ’50s (it is no accident that even in English, the term used to designate this genre is French: film noir). What was, in America itself, a series of low-budget B-productions of little critical prestige, was miraculously transformed, through the intervention of the French gaze, into a sublime object of art, a kind of film pendant to philosophical existentialism. Directors who had in America the status of skilled craftsmen, at best, became auteurs, each of them staging in his films a unique tragic vision of the universe’ (112). 3. For a discussion of opera in popular culture, see Storey, 2002a, 2003 and 2006. 4. See Storey, 2003 and 2005. 5. John Docker (1994) refers to her as ‘an old-style colonialist ethnographer, staring with distaste at the barbaric ways of strange and unknown people’ (25). 6. It is not just that F.R. Leavis offers us an idealized account of the past, which he does; he actually idealizes Bourne’s own account, failing to mention his criticisms of rural life. 7. It should be noted, contrary to van den Haag, that Freud is referring to all art, and not just popular culture. 8. For another excellent example of ‘history from below’, see Chauncey (1994). As Chauncey explains, ‘As my focus on street-level policing of gender suggests, another of the underlying arguments of this book is that histories of homosexuality – and sex and sexuality more generally – have suffered from their overreliance on the discourse of the elite. The most powerful elements of American society devised the official maps of the culture. . . . While this book pays those maps their due, it is more interested in reconstructing the maps etched in the city streets by daily habit, the paths that guided men’s practices even if they were never published or otherwise formalized. . . . This book seeks to analyze . . . the changing representation of homosexuality in popular culture and the street-level social practices and dynamics that shaped the ways homosexually active men were labelled, understood themselves, and interacted with others’ (26–7). 9. I remember at secondary school a teacher who encouraged us to bring to music lessons our records by The Beatles, Dylan and The Stones. The class would always end the same way – he would try to convince us of the fundamental error of our adolescent musical taste. 10. See Storey (1992). 11. See New Left Review (1977). 12. See Stedman Jones (1998). 13. See Storey (1985). 14. ‘We Can Be Together’, from the album Volunteers (1969). 15. See Storey (2009).
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Althusserianism 71 level. Neverthel
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Althusserianism 75 This conflict is
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Hegemony 81 below, but a language t
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Women at the cinema 139 Escapism is
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Reading romance 141 critic but as s
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Watching Dallas 149 discussion, to
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