Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

Index
Adams, William, 178
Adorno, Theodor, 62–7, 69–70
advertisements
Althusserianism, 73–4
art, reproduction of, 65
cars, 73–4
consumption, distinctions based on, 79
ideology, 78–9
interpellation, 78–9
language, debasement of, 24–6
Leavisism, 24–6
mob, 25
music, 12, 65, 66
symptomatic advertising, 72–3
women’s magazines, reading, 154
aesthetics, 219–21
agency and structure, dialectic between, 61
Alloway, Lawrenjce, 183
Althusser, Louis, 4–5, 57, 70–9, 111, 128
Althusserianism, 70–9, 128
American culture see also American westerns
counterculture, 85–6, 184
countercurrents, 207–8
Dallas (television), watching, 147
definition of popular culture, 8–9
dream to be American, 117, 208
imperialism, 147
mass culture, 28–33, 52
monolithic, assumption that American
culture is, 207–8
postmodernism, 204–8
Vietnam war, representations of, 174–7
American Westerns, 115–18
American Dream, 117
binary oppositions, 115–16
classic, vengeance, transition and
professional themes, 115–18
myths, 115–16
narrative functions, 115–16
oppositions, structuring, 116
society and community, 117–18
‘Analysis of Culture’, 44–8, 57
anarchy, popular culture as, 19–22
Ang, Ien, 146–53, 208–9, 215, 234
Apocalypse Now (film), 172, 187
Arnold, Malcolm, 51–2
Arnold, Matthew, 8, 14, 18–23, 27, 44, 48,
62, 63, 70, 81, 183, 201, 214
art
advertisements, 65
mass art, 54
museum art, 219
pop art, 183–4
popular art within popular culture, 53
reproduction, 65
working class, real art and, 183–4
articulation, 84–5, 200–1
audience
commodity, as, 217
fan cultures, 223–6
industrialization and urbanization, 63–4
performer, relationship with, 53–4
politics of the popular, 217, 223–6
producer of meanings and pleasures, as,
217
Austin, JL, 161
authenticity, 8, 12, 62–4, 66–7, 69
authority, collapse of, 23, 26–7
avant-garde, 184
Barbarians, Philistines and Populace,
19–20
Barber, Samuel. Adagio for Strings, 175
Barrett, Michèle, 136
Barthes, Roland, 4, 111, 113, 118–25, 126,
224