Theories of Popular Culture

1. Psychoanalysis

1.1. Sigmund Freud

1.1.1. Theory of the human psyche

1.2. Jacques Lacan

1.2.1. Real, Symbolic, Imaginary

2. Marxism

2.1. Karl Marx

2.1.1. Modes of Production

2.2. William Morris

2.2.1. Art & Labor

2.3. Louis Althusser

2.3.1. Ideology

2.4. Antonio Gramsci

2.4.1. Hegemony

3. Postmodernism

3.1. Jean Francois Lyotard

3.1.1. Incredulity toward metanarratives

3.2. Fredric Jameson

3.2.1. Pastiche

4. Feminism

4.1. Simone de Beauvoir

4.1.1. Woman as "the Other"

4.2. Laura Mulvey

4.2.1. The Male Gaze

4.2.2. Voyeurism

4.3. Sylvia Walby

4.3.1. Dual Systems Theory

5. Post-Structuralism

5.1. Jacques Derrida

5.1.1. Deconstructionism

6. Structuralism

6.1. Ferdinand de Saussure

6.1.1. Signs & Signifiers

7. Semiology

7.1. Roland Barthes

7.1.1. Code Systems

7.1.2. Myths

8. The Frankfurt School

8.1. Theodore Adorno & Max Horkeimer

8.1.1. The Culture Industry