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Cine-psychoanalysis 104
Slavoj yizek and Lacanian fantasy 107
Further reading 109

6 Structuralism and post-structuralism 111
Ferdinand de Saussure 111
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Will Wright and the American Western 114
Roland Barthes: Mythologies 118
Post-structuralism 126
Jacques Derrida 126
Discourse and power: Michel Foucault 128
The panoptic machine 131
Further reading 133

7 Gender and sexuality 135
Feminisms 135
Women at the cinema 136
Reading romance 140
Watching Dallas 147
Reading women’s magazines 153
Men’s studies and masculinities 159
Queer theory 160
Further reading 164

8 ‘Race’, racism and representation 167
‘Race’ and racism 167
The ideology of racism: its historical emergence 168
Orientalism 171
Anti-racism and cultural studies 179
Further reading 180

9 Postmodernism 181
The postmodern condition 181
Postmodernism in the 1960s 182
Jean-François Lyotard 184
Jean Baudrillard 186
Fredric Jameson 191
Postmodern pop music 197
Postmodern television 198
Postmodernism and the pluralism of value 201
The global postmodern 203
Convergence culture 210
Afterword 211
Further reading 211

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