Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

post-structuralists, 9, 126–34
binary opposition, 127–8
black and white, 127
deconstruction, 128
difference, 126–7
meaning, 126–7
nature and culture, 127–8
power, 127
signification, 2, 126–7
supplementarity, 127–8
writing and speech, 127–8
power
discourse, 128–33
franchise, 20
industrialization and urbanization, 17
knowledge, 130
normalization, 132
Orientalism, 172
panoptic machine, 131–3
people, popular culture as originating from
the, 11
politics of the popular, 217–18, 220, 232
post-Marxist cultural studies, 87
postmodernism, 201
post-structuralists, 127
reality, 130
resistance, 130
semiotic and social resistance to power,
217–18
primitive societies, culture of, 114–15
problem pages in women’s magazines, 155
problematics, 72–4, 128
production
consumption, 232
fan cultures, 224–5
Frankfurt School, 68–70
hegemony, 233–4
Marxism, 59–61
mass culture, ideology of, 234–5
modes of production, 59–61, 68–70
politics of the popular, 221–2, 224–5, 231
post-Marxist cultural studies, 88
postmodernism, 194, 201, 205
psyche, model of the, 91–3
psychoanalysis 91–109 see also Freudian
psychoanalysis
cine-psychoanalysis, 104–7, 137, 139, 140
Dallas (television), watching, 152
fantasy, 107
Lacanian psychoanalysis, 101–4, 105,
107–9, 111
women, film studies and, 137, 139, 140
Puccini, Giacomo, 6–7
Queer Theory, 160–4
biological sex and gender, 160–3
consumption, 163
drag, 162
heterosexuality, institution of, 161
queer space, 164
race and racism, 167–80
anti-racism and cultural studies, 179–80
colonialism and imperialism, 168, 170–1
history of race and racism in the West,
168–71
idealism, 167–8
ideology of racism, 168–71
Orientalism, 171–8
slavery and slave trade, 168–71
radicalism, 13–14, 17–18, 28
radio, 62
Radway, Janice, 142–7
Rakow, Lana, 136
Rambo films, 173, 174, 190, 217
Rastafarian reggae music, 85
reading
advertising, 72–3
Althusserianism, 72–6
decentred, literary texts as, 74–5
definition of popular culture, 9
latent text, 72–3
multiplicity of texts, 74
poaching, as, 222
problematic, 72–4
romantic fiction, reading, 140–7
unconsciousness of text, 75–7
women’s magazines, 153–9
Reagan, Ronald, 177
realism and reality
Dallas (television), watching, 148–9
emotional realism, 148–9
films, false realism of, 193
Freudian psychoanalysis, 93
language, 112–13
postmodernism, 187–90, 191, 193
Index 263