Geoff Bennington
Essay
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction
3 pages |
610 words
This essay discusses six definitions of popular culture, three from the structuralist tradition and three from the post-structuralist tradition. Structuralism is a theory that suggests that all cultures can be analysed in terms of a set of underlying structures, while post-structuralism is a theory that challenges some of the assumptions of structuralism.
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