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community Daily Telegraph, 122
American westerns, 117–18 Dallas (television), watching, 147–53, 156,
loss of organic communities, 8, 26–7 217
sense of community, 39–40 American cultural imperialism, 147
women’s magazines, imagined denotation and connotation, 148–9
communities and, 155 feminism, 147, 152
conduct books, 77 ideology of mass culture, 149–53
conformity, 62, 64 irony, 150–1
Connor, Steven, 185–6 melodramatic imagination, 149
connotation and denotation, 118–19, 123, pleasure, 147–9, 150–3
148–9 populism, ideology of, 151–2
conscience, 92–3 psychoanalysis, 152
Conservative Party, 119 realism, 148–9
consumption Dances with Wolves (film), 117–18, 128
advertisements, 79 Dante Alighieri, 30
capitalism, 228–31 David-Neel, Alexandra, 77
definition of popular culture, 6, 8 de Beauvoir, Simone, 160–1
economic field, 227 de Certeau, Michel, 222–4
fan cultures, 223 definition of culture, 44–5
Frankfurt School, 68, 69–70 definition of popular culture 1–2, 3–13
hegemony, 81–2, 233–4 democracy, 24, 65
mass culture, ideology of, 234–5 denotation and connotation, 118–19, 123,
mythologies, 119 148–9
passivity, 88 Derrida, Jacques, 126–8
poaching, 222 Descartes, Rene, 103
politics of the popular, 214–16, 221–3, Desert Island Discs, 107
227 desire, 105, 108–9, 141
pop music, 68 Dickens, Charles, 9
production, 232 différance, 126–7
Queer Theory, 163 discipline, social control and, 132
Vietnam war, representations of, 176, discourse and power, 128–33
178 discipline, 132
women’s magazines, reading, 154, 157 film as an object of study, 129
youth culture, 81–2 hierarchical criss-crossing of discourses,
convergence culture, 210–11 129
Coronation Street (television), 188–9 knowledge, 128, 130
counterculture, 85–6, 184 language, 128–9
Coward, Rosalind, 140–1, 143 panoptic machine, 131–3
Creekmur, Corey K, 163 post-Marxism, 83–4
critical theory, 62 sexuality, 129–30
culturalism, 37–58 social practices, 129
Culture and Anarchy. Matthew Arnold, surveillance, 131–3
18–20 truth, 130
culture and civilization tradition, 18–35, 70 Disneyland, 190–1
culture, definition of 1–2, 44–5 Disraeli, Benjamin, 18
culture shock, 87 Dittmar, Linda, 175
Curtin, Philip, 171 diversity, 185
customs and rituals, 5 Docker, John, 191

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