Chapter 19. Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
4. Chapter 1. Introduction: Rethinking Popular Culture 1
5. PART I • POPULAR CULTURE IN HISTORICAL STUDIES
6. Chapter 2. Printing and the People 65
7. Chapter 3. Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin 97
8. Chapter 4. The Rise of the Saloon 121
9. Chapter 5. William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation 157
10. Chapter 6. The Dream World of Mass Consumption 198
11. PART II • POPULAR CULTURE IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES
12. Chapter 7. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 239
13. Chapter 8. La Pensee Bourgeoise: Western Society as Culture 278
14. Chapter 9. Jokes 291
15. PART III • POPULAR CULTURE IN SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES
16. Chapter 10. Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis Cultural Industry Systems 313
17. Chapter 11. Movies of the Week 335
18. Chapter 12. Sport and Social Class 357
19. Chapter 13. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America 374
20. Chapter 14. The Public Sphere 398
21. PART IV • POPULAR CULTURE IN CULTURAL CRITICISM
22. Chapter 15. Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory 407
23. Chapter 16. The Suit and the Photograph 424
24. Chapter 17. Written Clothing 432
25. Chapter 18. What Is an Author? 446
26. Chapter 19. Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading 465
27. CONTRIBUTORS 487
28. INDEX 491