This is UAT Moodle

Much of the material in this course can be found in:
John Storey: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, Prentice Hall 1997 (2nd Edn)
There is one book which is the introduction, and another which is the 'Reader', a collection of extracts.

Roland Barthes – Mythologies

Umberto Eco – Travels in Hyperreality

Richard Schechner – The Future of Ritual;
Performance Theory

John Berger – Ways of Seeing

Mikhail Bakhtin – Carnival and the Carnivalesque

Johannes Huizinga – Homo Ludens

John & Sue Fox – Welfare State handbook

Richard Sennett – The Fall of Public Man

Aldous Huxley – The Doors of Perception

Jean Baudrillard – The Poetics of Everyday Life


A few newspaper articles which might be useful:


What's wrong with being an MTV martyr?
Andrew Anthony,Thursday June 2, 2005, The Guardian

Branded for life
Is the anti-capitalist movement part of the solution or part of the problem? Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter make the case for the prosecution in their thought-provoking The Rebel Sell.
Andy Beckett Saturday June 4, 2005, The Guardian


The Rebel Sell: How the Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
352pp, Capstone, £16.99