Mass culture and popular culture : The mass culture debate ; Americanisation and the critique of mass culture theory -- The Frankfurt School and the culture industry : The theory of commodity fetishism ; The culture industry and popular music -- Structuralism, semiology and popular culture : Structural linguistics and the ideas of Saussure ; Barthes, semiology and popular culture ; Structuralism and semiology: some key problems -- Marxism, political economy and ideology -- Feminism and popular culture : The feminist analysis of popular culture -- Postmodernism, contemporary popular culture and recent theoretical developments : Contemporary popular culture and postmodernism ; The emergence of postmodernism ; Some recent theoretical developments

1. Popular culture