Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

community
American westerns, 117–18
loss of organic communities, 8, 26–7
sense of community, 39–40
women’s magazines, imagined
communities and, 155
conduct books, 77
conformity, 62, 64
Connor, Steven, 185–6
connotation and denotation, 118–19, 123,
148–9
conscience, 92–3
Conservative Party, 119
consumption
advertisements, 79
capitalism, 228–31
definition of popular culture, 6, 8
economic field, 227
fan cultures, 223
Frankfurt School, 68, 69–70
hegemony, 81–2, 233–4
mass culture, ideology of, 234–5
mythologies, 119
passivity, 88
poaching, 222
politics of the popular, 214–16, 221–3,
227
pop music, 68
production, 232
Queer Theory, 163
Vietnam war, representations of, 176,
178
women’s magazines, reading, 154, 157
youth culture, 81–2
convergence culture, 210–11
Coronation Street (television), 188–9
counterculture, 85–6, 184
Coward, Rosalind, 140–1, 143
Creekmur, Corey K, 163
critical theory, 62
culturalism, 37–58
Culture and Anarchy. Matthew Arnold,
18–20
culture and civilization tradition, 18–35, 70
culture, definition of 1–2, 44–5
culture shock, 87
Curtin, Philip, 171
customs and rituals, 5
Daily Telegraph, 122
Dallas (television), watching, 147–53, 156,
217
American cultural imperialism, 147
denotation and connotation, 148–9
feminism, 147, 152
ideology of mass culture, 149–53
irony, 150–1
melodramatic imagination, 149
pleasure, 147–9, 150–3
populism, ideology of, 151–2
psychoanalysis, 152
realism, 148–9
Dances with Wolves (film), 117–18, 128
Dante Alighieri, 30
David-Neel, Alexandra, 77
de Beauvoir, Simone, 160–1
de Certeau, Michel, 222–4
definition of culture, 44–5
definition of popular culture 1–2, 3–13
democracy, 24, 65
denotation and connotation, 118–19, 123,
148–9
Derrida, Jacques, 126–8
Descartes, Rene, 103
Desert Island Discs, 107
desire, 105, 108–9, 141
Dickens, Charles, 9
différance, 126–7
discipline, social control and, 132
discourse and power, 128–33
discipline, 132
film as an object of study, 129
hierarchical criss-crossing of discourses,
129
knowledge, 128, 130
language, 128–9
panoptic machine, 131–3
post-Marxism, 83–4
sexuality, 129–30
social practices, 129
surveillance, 131–3
truth, 130
Disneyland, 190–1
Disraeli, Benjamin, 18
Dittmar, Linda, 175
diversity, 185
Docker, John, 191
Index 255