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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

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superior or refined culture, 32–3<br />

surveillance, 131–3<br />

survival manuals, women’s magazines as, 153<br />

symbols, 95–6, 101–4<br />

Talking Heads (group), 197<br />

Tarantino, Quentin, 193–4<br />

Tarzan, 173<br />

taste<br />

class, 219<br />

definition of popular culture, 6<br />

politics of the popular, 219, 220<br />

postmodernism, 202–3<br />

Taxi Driver (film) 73<br />

technological change, 210<br />

television see also Dallas (television), watching<br />

advertising, songs in, 12<br />

articulation, strategies of, 200–1<br />

Big Brother, 132–3<br />

bricolage, 198–9<br />

Coronation Street, 188–9<br />

Doctor Who, 210–11, 224–5<br />

fan cultures, rewriting of shows by, 224–5<br />

Hill Street Blues (television), 217<br />

hyperrealism, 187–9<br />

LA Law (television), 188<br />

make-over <strong>and</strong> talk shows, 133<br />

music, 12<br />

oscillation, 199–200<br />

postmodernism, 198–201<br />

surveillance, 133<br />

textual <strong>and</strong> economic analysis, 199<br />

Twin Peaks, 198–200<br />

telling <strong>and</strong> showing, difference between, 75<br />

texts<br />

access, 227<br />

analysis, 97–101<br />

decentred, literary text as, 74–5<br />

determinism, 222–4<br />

Frankfurt School, 68–9<br />

Freudian psychoanalysis, 97–101<br />

politics of the popular, 222–4, 227<br />

postmodernism, 199<br />

practices,<br />

culture of, 68–9<br />

underlying relations of, 113–14<br />

structuralism, 113–14<br />

unconsciousness of text, 75–7<br />

Thiknesse, Philip, 169–7<br />

Thomson, Denys, 23–6<br />

Thompson, EP, 17, 37, 49–51, 56, 61<br />

Tomlinson, John, 205<br />

Tong, Rosemary, 135<br />

triumphs over tragedies, 155<br />

truth, 76, 87, 130, 176, 191<br />

Tumin, Melvin, 33<br />

Turner, Graeme, 2<br />

Twin Peaks (television), 198–200<br />

‘two nations’, 18<br />

Uncommon Valor (film), 174<br />

unconscious, 91–2, 94–5<br />

underground scene in Britain, 184<br />

urbanization, 12–13, 17–18, 21, 26–7, 53–4,<br />

65<br />

Uses of Literacy. Richard Hoggart, 37, 38–44<br />

value <strong>and</strong> evaluation, 51–6, 201–3<br />

Verne, Jules, 76–7<br />

Vietnam war, representations of, 172–8<br />

Americanization of war, 174–7<br />

anti-war movement, 176<br />

betrayal, war as, 173<br />

consumption, 176, 178<br />

feminization of loss, 174<br />

films, 173–6, 178<br />

Gulf War 1991, 176–7<br />

inverted firepower syndrome, 174<br />

representations, 172–7<br />

truth, 176<br />

violence, fear of male, 143–4, 145<br />

Viva (magazine), 147<br />

Volosinov, Valentin, 84–5<br />

Walby, Sylvia, 135<br />

Warhol, Andy, 183–4<br />

Warner Bros, 232<br />

Warner, Michael, 163<br />

Watergate, 190–1<br />

West, Cornel, 197–8<br />

Whannel, Paddy, 37, 51–6<br />

White, Charles, 169<br />

White, David Manning, 29, 30<br />

Williams, Raymond, 1–2, 5, 11, 12–13, 27,<br />

37, 44–8, 56, 57, 86, 183, 191–2, 201,<br />

218<br />

Index 265

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