Readings in Popular Culture: Trivial Pursuits?

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Popular Culture — The Conditions of Control?....Pages 1-12
MacDonald’s Man meets Reader’s Digest....Pages 13-17
Acid — Burning a Hole in the Present....Pages 18-22
Hampton Court Revisited: A Re-evaluation of the Consumer....Pages 23-31
Henry’s Paperweight: The Banks and TV Advertising....Pages 32-38
‘A Thing of Beauty and a Source of Wonderment’: Ornaments for the Home as Cultural Status Markers....Pages 39-47
Pose for Thought: Bodybuilding and Other Matters....Pages 48-58
Dialogic Society: Discourse and Subjectivity in British Telecom’s ‘Talkabout’ Service....Pages 59-67
T-Shirts and the Coming Collapse of Capitalism....Pages 68-74
Recipes for Success....Pages 75-83
That’s Entertainment?....Pages 84-89
Christmas: Celebrating the Humbug....Pages 90-97
War Toys....Pages 98-111
Family Affairs: Angst in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction....Pages 112-120
Is the Micro Macho? A Critique of the Fictions of Advertising....Pages 121-130
Pleasure and Danger, Sex and Death: Reading True Crime Monthlies....Pages 131-138
A Second Byte of the Apple....Pages 139-144
Illiberal Thoughts on ‘Page 3’....Pages 145-150
The Golden Age of Cricket....Pages 151-163
Bertolt Brecht and Football, or Playwright versus Playmaker....Pages 164-173
The Woman’s Realm: History Repeats Itself on the Women’s Page....Pages 174-186
G-Men to Jar Wars — Conditioning the Public....Pages 187-193
Chaos and Order: The New York Subway....Pages 194-199
‘And Where Did You See Star Wars?’ — Cinema-Going in Britain....Pages 200-207
Museums of Fine Art and their Public....Pages 208-215
American National Identity and the Structure of Myth: Images of Reagan....Pages 216-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-235