Revised April 2000

Articles and Chapters

Note: Many of these articles are reprinted in several different anthologies and collections.

Adorno, Theodore and Max Horkheimer. “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” Reprinted in Simon During, ed., The Cultural Studies Reader, Pp. 29-43. Routledge, 1993.

Allen, John. “Fordism and Modern Industry.” In Stuart Hall et al., eds., Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, Pp. 280-306. Blackwell, 1996.

Allen, John. “Post-Industrialism/Post-Fordism.” In Stuart Hall et al., eds., Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, Pp. 533-563. Blackwell, 1996.

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” Reprinted in John Storey, ed., Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, 2nd edition, Pp. 153-164. University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Arendt, Hannah. “The Human Condition.” Reprinted in William McNeill and Karen Feldman, eds., Continental Philosophy: An Anthology, Pp. 260-271. Blackwell, 1998.

Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Carnival and Carnivalesque.” Reprinted in John Storey, ed., Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, 2nd edition, Pp. 250-259. University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Barthes, Roland. “Myth Today.” In his Mythologies, Pp. l09-159. Hill and Wang, 1972.

Bauman, Richard. “Verbal Art as Performance.” In his Verbal Art as Performance. Waveland Press, 1977.

Ben-Amos, Dan. “Analytical Categories and Ethnic Genres.” In Dan Ben-Amos, ed., Folklore Genres. University of Texas, 1915.

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Reprinted in William McNeil and Karen Feldman, eds., Continental Philosophy: An Anthology, Pp. 244-252. Blackwell, 1998.

Bordo, Susan. “Material Girl: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture.” In her Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Pp. 245-276. University of California Press, 1993.

Bourdieu, Pierre. “Distinction and The Aristocracy of Culture.” Reprinted in John Stony, ed., Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, 2nd edition, Pp. 431-441. University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Cawelti, John. “The Study of Literary Formulas” (chapter 1) in his Adventure, Mystery and Romance. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Dirlik, Arif. “The Global in the Local,” in Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake, eds., Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary, Pp. 21-45. Duke University Press, 1996.

Dyer, Richard. “Entertainment and Utopia.” Reprinted in Simon During, ed., The Cultural Studies Reader, Pp. 271-285. Routledge, 1993

Featherstone, Mike. “The Heroic Life and Everyday Life.” In his Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity, Pp. 54-71. Sage, 1995.

Fiske, John. “Reading the Beach.” In his Reading the Popular, Pp. 43-76. Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Geertz, Clifford. “Thick Description: Towards an Interpretative Theory of Culture.” Reprinted in Michael Martin and Lee McIntyre, eds., Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science, Pp. 213-232. MIT Press, 1994.

Geertz, Clifford. “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight.” Reprinted in Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson, eds., Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, Pp. 239-277. University of California Ness, 1991.

Gilroy, Paul. “The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity.” In his The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Pp. 1- 40. Harvard University Press, 1993.

Habermas, Jurgen. “The Public Sphere.” Reprinted in Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson, eds., Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, Pp. 398-404. University of California Press, 1991.

Hall, Stuart. “Encoding, Decoding.” Reprinted in Simon During, ed., The Cultural Studies Reader, Pp. 90-103. Routledge. 1993.

Hall, Stuart “Notes an Deconstructing ‘The Popular.’” Reprinted in John Storey, ed., Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, 2nd edition, Pp. 442-453. University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Hall, Stuart. “What is This ‘Black’ in Black Popular Culture?” in Gina Dent, ed., Black Popular Culture. Pp. 21-33. Bay Ness, 1992.

Hebdege, Dick. “Posing... Threats, Striking… Poses: Youth, Surveillance, and Display.” Reprinted in Ken Gelder and Sarah Thornton, eds., The Subcultures Reader, Pp. 393-405. Routledge, 1997.

Jameson, Fredric. “Reification and Utopia.” In Social Text, 1:1, 1979.

Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.” Reprinted in Anthony Elliot, ed., The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory, Pp. 338-350. Blackwell, 1999.

Jenkins, Henry. “Introduction” from Textual Poachers. Routledge, 1992. Reprinted in Ken Gelder and Sarah Thornton, eds., The Subcultures Reader, Pp. 506-522. Routledge, 1997.

Lefebvre, Henri. “Philosophy and Everyday Life.” In his Everyday Life in the Modern World, Pp. 12-26. Transaction Publishers, 1984.

Levine, Lawrence. “William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation.” Reprinted in Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson, eds., Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, Pp. 157-197. University of California Press, 1991.

McDowell, Linda. “In and Out of Place: Bodies and Embodiment.” In her Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies, Pp. 34-70. University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Screen 16.3 (1975): 6-18. Reprinted in Jessica Muting and Gita Rajan, A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice. Longman, 1995.

Radway, Janice. “Interpretative Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading.” Reprinted in Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson, eds., Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, Pp. 465-486. University of California Press, 1991.

Smith, Dorothy. “Femininity as Discourse.” In Leslie Romans and Linda Christian-Smith, eds., Becoming Feminine, Pp. 37-58. Palmer Press, 1988.

Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Reprinted in Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds., The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Pp. 24-28. Routledge, 1995.

Turner, Victor. “Liminality and Communitas.” In his The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Pp. 94-130. Cornell University Press, 1969.

Williams, Raymond. “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory.” Reprinted in Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson, eds., Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, Pp. 407-423. University of California Press, 1991.

Zizek, Slavoj. “Multiculturalism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism.” New Left Review 225 (September/October 1997): 28-51.

 

Books

Altman, Rick. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Bataille, Georges. Erotism: Death and Sensuality. City Lights Books, 1991.

Baudrillard, Jean. The System of Objects. Verso, 1996.

Bronski, Michael. Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility. South End Press, 1984.

Brown, Linda Keller and Kay Mussel eds. Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity. University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. By Steven Rendall. University of California Press, 1984.

Common Ground: Keywords for the Study of Expressive Culture, special issue of Journal of American Folklore, 108 #430, 1995.

Crane, Diana. The Production of Culture: Media and the Urban Arts. Sage, 1992.

Dorst, John. The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Vintage Books, 1990.

Hannigan, John. Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis. Routledge. 1998.

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Blackwell, 1990.

hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. South End Press, 1992.

Kellner, Douglas. Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Postmodern. Routledge, 1995.

Lee, 0-Young. The Compact Culture: The Japanese Tradition of “Smaller is Better.” Kodansha International, 1992.

Lipsitz, George. Time Passages: Collective Memory and Popular Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 1990.

Lowenthal, David. The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Nasaw, David. Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. Harvard University Press, 1994.

Radner, Joan ed. Feminist Messages: Coding in Women’s Folk Culture. University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Roberts, John. From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slave and Freedom. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Tuleja, Tad ed. Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America. Utah State University Press, 1997.