Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Why We Consume
Marx, alienation and consumption
Social emulation
The Romantic ethic
Notes
2. Consumption as Manipulation
The Frankfurt School
The Leavisism
The mythologies of Roland Barthes
Problems with the cultural-consumption-as-manipulation model
Notes
3. Consumption as Communication
Conspicuous consumption
Consumption as culture
Consumption as class struggle
Consumption as secondary production
Notes
4. Consumption as Production
Hermeneutics
The Constance School
Interpretative communities
Reading formations and paratextuality
5. Media Consumption
The Encoding/Decoding Model
Watching Dallas
Dallas and cultural imperialism
Notes
6. Non-Media-Centric Media Consumption
Television talk
Family television
Talking with television
Notes
7. Consumption and Identities
We are what we consume
Identities and performativity
Identities and displaced meaning
Thinking consumption and identities historically
Notes
8. Consumerism and Consumer Society
Consumption and consumerism
Birth of consumer society
Anti-consumption
Advertising and the organisation of desire
Notes
9. Consumption and Cultural Studies
The determining role of production
Textualism
Consuming with Gramsci
Notes
References
Biography
John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK. He has published extensively in cultural studies, including 11 books. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. He is also on editorial/advisory boards in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the USA, and has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Vienna, Henan and Wuhan and a Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Dresden.
