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Index

Adams, William, 178 narrative functions, 115–16
Adorno, Theodor, 62–7, 69–70 oppositions, structuring, 116
advertisements society and community, 117–18
Althusserianism, 73–4 ‘Analysis of Culture’, 44–8, 57
art, reproduction of, 65 anarchy, popular culture as, 19–22
cars, 73–4 Ang, Ien, 146–53, 208–9, 215, 234
consumption, distinctions based on, 79 Apocalypse Now (film), 172, 187
ideology, 78–9 Arnold, Malcolm, 51–2
interpellation, 78–9 Arnold, Matthew, 8, 14, 18–23, 27, 44, 48,
language, debasement of, 24–6 62, 63, 70, 81, 183, 201, 214
Leavisism, 24–6 art
mob, 25 advertisements, 65
music, 12, 65, 66 mass art, 54
symptomatic advertising, 72–3 museum art, 219
women’s magazines, reading, 154 pop art, 183–4
aesthetics, 219–21 popular art within popular culture, 53
agency and structure, dialectic between, 61 reproduction, 65
Alloway, Lawrenjce, 183 working class, real art and, 183–4
Althusser, Louis, 4–5, 57, 70–9, 111, 128 articulation, 84–5, 200–1
Althusserianism, 70–9, 128 audience
American culture see also American westerns commodity, as, 217
counterculture, 85–6, 184 fan cultures, 223–6
countercurrents, 207–8 industrialization and urbanization, 63–4
Dallas (television), watching, 147 performer, relationship with, 53–4
definition of popular culture, 8–9 politics of the popular, 217, 223–6
dream to be American, 117, 208 producer of meanings and pleasures, as,
imperialism, 147 217
mass culture, 28–33, 52 Austin, JL, 161
monolithic, assumption that American authenticity, 8, 12, 62–4, 66–7, 69
culture is, 207–8 authority, collapse of, 23, 26–7
postmodernism, 204–8 avant-garde, 184
Vietnam war, representations of, 174–7
American Westerns, 115–18 Barbarians, Philistines and Populace,
American Dream, 117 19–20
binary oppositions, 115–16 Barber, Samuel. Adagio for Strings, 175
classic, vengeance, transition and Barrett, Michèle, 136
professional themes, 115–18 Barthes, Roland, 4, 111, 113, 118–25, 126,
myths, 115–16 224

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