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POSTMODERNISM AND POPULAR
CULTURE
Cultural studies started life as a radical political project, establishing the
cultural centrality of everyday life and of popular culture. In a postmodern
world where old certainties are undermined and identities fragmented, the
way forward for those working with popular culture has become less clear.
In contrast to more pessimistic readings of the possibilities of
postmodernity,
Postmodernism and Popular Culture
engages with
postmodernity as a space for social change and political transformation.
Ranging widely over cultural theory and popular culture, Angela
McRobbie engages with everyday life as an eclectic and invigorating
interplay of different cultures and identities. She discusses new ways of
thinking developed with the advent of postmodernism, from the ‘New
Times’ debate to political strategies after the disintegration of western
Marxism. She assesses the contribution of key figures in cultural and
postimperial theory—Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin and Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak—and surveys the invigorating landscape of today’s
youth and popular culture, from second-hand fashion to the rave scene,
and from moral panics to teenage magazines.
McRobbie argues throughout for a commitment to cultural studies as an
‘undisciplined’ discipline, reforming and reinventing itself as circumstances
demand; for the importance of ethnographic and empirical work; and for
the need for feminists to continually ask questions about the meaning of
feminist theory in a postmodern society.
Angela McRobbie
is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at Thames Valley
University, London. She has written extensively on popular culture, gender
and youth culture, and is also a regular contributor to newspapers and
magazines. Her current research is on the fashion industry.
POSTMODERNISM AND
POPULAR CULTURE
Angela McRobbie
London and New York
First published 1994
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.
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© 1994 Angela McRobbie
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or
utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from
the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress
ISBN 0-203-16833X Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-263553 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-07712-5 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-07713-3 (pbk)
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
v
INTRODUCTION
1
1 POSTMODERNISM AND POPULAR CULTURE
12
2 NEW TIMES IN CULTURAL STUDIES
23
3 POST-MARXISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES
43
4 FEMINISM, POSTMODERNISM AND THE ‘REAL ME’
60
5 THE MODERNIST STYLE OF SUSAN SONTAG
75
6 THE
PASSAGENWERK
AND THE PLACE OF
WALTER BENJAMIN IN CULTURAL STUDIES
94
7 STRATEGIES OF VIGILANCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
119
8 SECOND-HAND DRESSES AND THE ROLE OF THE
RAGMARKET
130
9 SHUT UP AND DANCE: YOUTH CULTURE AND
CHANGING MODES OF FEMININITY
150
10 DIFFERENT, YOUTHFUL, SUBJECTTVITIES:
TOWARDS A CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF YOUTH
172
11 THE MORAL PANIC IN THE AGE OF THE
POSTMODERN MASS MEDIA
192
Index
214
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