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	• An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture John Storey University of Georgia Press, 1998 - 269 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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The second edition of this text includes new sections on popular culture and the carnivalesque, and on postmodernism and the pluralism of value. Five of the original sections have been expanded to include material on neo-Gramscian cultural studies, popular film, cine-psychoanalysis and cultural studies, feminism a reading, postermodernism in the 1960s, and the cultural field. Equally important, Storey has updated the examples drawn from popular culture texts. While this is an introductory text, I think it clearly is aimed at a more sophisticated student than Storey's other value. Additionally, the 2nd edition of Storey's "Cultural Theory & Popular Culture: A Reader" is specifically intended as a companion volume for THIS textbook, which was the winner of the Ray and Pat Browne Award of the Popular Culture Association. Whichever way you decide to go in terms of selecting a primary textbook for your Popular Culture class, having the other volumes is of definite value.

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nice introduction to a maddeningly diverse topic

I'd just like to comment on the previous reviewer's comments -- it's true that Storey doesn't keep his opinions secret, but I think his presentation of the various theories is extremely lucid, even when he goes on to smash them to pieces (which only happens in a few cases anyway, in the chapter on Matthew Arnold and the Leavises, and in the last part on the academic debates).
This book is a clear and useful introduction to the subject from a pro-popcular culture perspective. However, if you already have some idea about structuralism, postmodernism, the Frankfurt School etc., it's probably best to skip it and get the accompanying Reader which gives much more depth (and primary literture instead of pre-digested comments). Otherwise start with the Introduction and move on to the Reader.

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