Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader

The reader provides a theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues in cultural studies. The text includes four new readings:1). Stuart Hall,What Is This ‘Black' in Black Popular Culture 2). Amir Saeed,Musical Jihad 3). Neil Perryman, Dr Who and the Convergence of Media 4). Jim Collins,Genericity in the Nineties Fully revised general and section introductions from the editor, contextualise and link the readings with key issues from the textbook A fully updated bibliography is provided

John Storey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland. He has published widely in cultural studies, including seven books. The most recent books called The Articulation of Memory and Desire (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2007 His work has been translated into Chinese German, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Henan, Vienna and Wuhan.