Cultural Reader

Mikhail Bakhtin - "Carnival and Carnivalesque" - summary and review part 1 - 2 - 3 In "Carnival and Carnivalesque,...

Mikhail Bakhtin - "Carnival and Carnivalesque" - summary and review part  1  - 2 -  3 According to Mikhail Bakhtin in ...

Mikhail Bakhtin - "Carnival and Carnivalesque" - summary and review part 1 -  2  -  3 Mikhail Bakhtin's famous work, ...

Fredric Jameson 's "Reification and Utopia" (1979) starts with a summary and debate of the traditional critical attitudes tow...

In "Culture Industry Reconsidered" Theodor Adorno discusses the  Frankfurt School  concept of the culture industry and its app...

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema is an essay on cinema written by Laura Mulvey  in 1973 and published in 1975 in the British cinema revi...

Definition: The term "Subculture" is used in sociology and anthropology to define a group of people with a distinctive set of beha...

part 1 - 2 In "Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Study of Popular Culture" feminist thinker Constance Penley analyses "Star ...

Constacne Penley's "Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Study of Popular Culture" deals with the relations between feminism, psy...

In "Post Feminism and Popular Culture" ( Feminist Media Studies 4, 2004) feminist cultural researcher Angela McRobbie argues tha...

The first part of Stuart Hall's "Notes on Deconstructing 'The Popular'" is an historical account of the developme...

Stuart Hall's "Notes on Deconstructing 'The Popular'" initially appeared in " People's History and Sociali...

Richard Shusterman's "Form and Funk: The Aesthetic Challenge of Popular Art" (in " pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, ...

In "The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism" (in: Mechademia: Emerging Worlds of Anima and Magna") A...

What is interesting about Richard Peterson's "Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music" is his analysis of the pro...

As a cultural critic, Dwight Macdonald combined a leftist, even radical, stance with cultural conservatism and elitism, two features of his ...

part 1 - 2 The self help ethos which according to Illouz in "Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery" characterizes Oprah's s...

part 1 - 2 In the chapter titles "The Hypertext of Identity" (in "Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery") Israeli soci...

In "Aesthetics, Policy and the Politics of Popular Culture" John Street tries to broaden the scope of discussion over the politics...