In this eleventh edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines.

Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition remains a key introduction to the area.

New to this edition:

. Fully updated throughout with contemporary examples of popular culture

. A brand-new postscript on "AI, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture"

. Updated student resources at www.routledgelearning.com/culturaltheory

This new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, the sociology of culture, popular culture and other related subjects.

John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK. He has published widely on cultural theory, popular culture, consumption and utopianism. He is the author of numerous books, including Theories of Consumption (2017), Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies: On Refusing to be Realistic (2019), Consuming Utopia: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Reading (2022) and Consumption (2023). He is also editor of The Making of English Popular Culture (2016) and Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2019).