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Lane, M., Commerce Against Culture (Pluto Press, forthcoming). A history and analysis of
changes in the structure of publishing since 1945.
Macherey, P., A Theory of Literary Production (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1978). A work
of theoretical analysis which developes the Althusserian theory of ideology in
relation to literature.
Macherey, P., ‘Literature as an ideological form: some Marxist theses’ (CCCS Stencilled
Paper, forthcoming).
New Left Books, Aesthetics and Politics (New Left Books 1977). A collection of essays
by Lukács, the ‘Frankfurt School’ and Brecht, outlining the main positions in the
realism/modernism debates. Each group of essays is introduced, and there is a
concluding afterword by Fredric Jameson.
Solomon, M. (ed.), Marxism and Art—Essays Classic and Contemporary (New York:
Vintage 1974). A reader designed to present a wide range of Marxist critical opinion
on the theorization of literature, art and culture. Currently out of print, it is to be
republished in America—a project financed through public subscription.
Williams, R., Marxism and Literature (Oxford University Press 1977). A fully considered
bringing together of Williams’s own body of work with a suggestive review of
central Marxist concepts.
Williams, R., Politics and Letters (New Left Books 1979). Taped intellectual and political
autobiography, immensely resonant and important.

Popular culture

Braden, S., Artists and People (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1978). A study of the role of
art in the community and of community artists.
Bromley, R., ‘Natural boundaries: the social function of popular fiction’, in Red Letters,
no. 7 (1978). An analysis of popular fiction using a broad theory of ideology and
culture which develops the concept of masculine and feminine romance.
Brunsdon, C., and Morley, D., Everyday television: ‘Nationwide’ (British Film Institute
1978). An analysis of the way Nationwide addresses itself to both a national
audience, united in the diversity of regions, and an audience of ordinary individuals,
grouped in families.
Horkheimer, M., and Adorno, T., ‘The culture industry: enlightenment as the mass
deception’, in Dialectic of Enlightenment (New Left Books 1979). The central text in
the ‘Frankfurt School’s’ account of mass culture in terms of the structure of the
commodity and reification.
Jameson, F., ‘Ideology, narrative analysis and popular culture’, in Theory and Society, no.
4 (1977). A review of recent work on popular culture utilizing recent concepts of
ideology and developments in narrative theory.
Laclau, E., Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory (New Left Books 1977). Contains an
account of interpellation through ideology which others have tried to use in relation
to literary texts.
Mercer, C., ‘Culture and ideology in Gramsci’, in Red Letters, no. 8 (1978). A useful
account of Gramsci’s and Althusser’s work, developing a reading of interpellation.
Nowell-Smith, G., ‘Common sense’, in Radical Philosophy, no. 7 (1974). A short but
pointed essay on Gramsci’s use of common sense.