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                      Preface/Acknowledgements













                        Preface to fifth edition

                      In writing the fifth edition I have revised, rewritten and edited throughout. I have also
                      added new material to most of the chapters (the book has grown from a first edition
                      of around 65,000 words to a fifth edition that is in excess of 114,000 words). The most
                      obvious addition is the new chapter ‘Race, racism and representation’ and the new
                      sections on the panoptic machine (Chapter 6) and convergence culture (Chapter 9).
                      I have also added more diagrams and illustrations.
                        The fifth edition is best read in conjunction with its companion volume, Cultural
                      Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, fourth edition (Pearson, 2009).




                        Preface to fourth edition

                      In writing the fourth edition I have revised, rewritten and edited throughout. I have
                      also added new material to most of the chapters (the book has grown from a first edi-
                      tion  of  around  65,000  words  to  a  fourth  edition  that  is  well  in  excess  of  100,000
                      words).  The  most  obvious  addition  is  the  new  chapter  on  psychoanalysis  and  the
                      sections on post-Marxism (Chapter 4) and the global postmodern (Chapter 8). I have
                      also added more diagrams and illustrations. Finally, I have changed the running order
                      of the chapters. The chapters are now chronological in terms of where each begins.
                      However, where each chapter ends may sometimes disrupt chronology. For example,
                      Marxism begins before post-structuralism, but where the discussion of Marxism ends is
                      more contemporary than where the discussion of post-structuralism ends. There seems
                      to be no obvious solution to this problem.



                        Preface to third edition


                      In writing the third edition I have sought to improve and to expand the material in the
                      first two editions of this book. To achieve this I have revised and I have rewritten much
                      more extensively than in the second edition. I have also added new material to most
                      of the chapters. This is most evident in the renamed, and reorganized, Chapter 6, where










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