On Jameson's Postmodernism And Popular Culture Theory

Fredric Jameson is one of the most famous West-Marxist critics and theorists in contemporary America. Jameson's theory has a strong characteristic of Marxism as well as obvious postmodernism culture critical theory. Jameson observes and analyzes the phenomenon of culture, economy, politics in late capitalism and based on this, he analyzes postmodernism culture from an objective point. Jameson is good at absorbing the advantages of other theorist's main point, which including Marxism, destructive, ideology analyses and Lacan's Psychoanalytical Theory. Jameson absorbs this huge theory resource and tries to use a kind of microscopically meta-criticism to conform this theory to his own theory range.In 1990ths, Jameson begins to focus on studying culture problems. He thinks that, culture studies is a new type of studying way which can study from the aspect of the logic of science as well as the problems in society. It's also a culture strategy which can gain a whole sight of the contemporary problems. The theorists are declaring their own negative or positive opinions about the complicated phenomenon of the postmodernism culture. However, Jameson uses his historical and dialectic way to analyze the postmodernism culture. He takes the postmodernism culture as the dominant form of the logic of late capitalism, and to prove his point with varies of cultural phenomenon. Jameson enlarges the culture's range to a generalized degree, which not only differ from the traditional culture's parochialism point of view but also adapt to the needs of development. From this filed of vision, Jameson gives postmodernism culture a quite comment and recognizes its epoch characteristic clearly.This thesis mainly studies on Jameson's postmodernism and popular culture theory and explore Jameson's dialectic as well as objective culture theory by putting popular culture into the background of postmodernism. This thesis mainly discusses Jameson's main idea resource including Marxism, Frankfurt School, destructive and Psychoanalytical Theory. This theory brings great influence to Jameson's idea. Jameson absorbed the idea fruits of this theorist, at the same time he creates his own particular theory. This thesis analyzes Jameson's postmodernism and popular cultural theory from both microscopically and microcosmic aspects and illustrate it from the aspects of culture's background, culture's characteristics and the dialectic characteristics of Jameson's theory in order to follow Jameson's dialectic and objective thinking way. This thesis also follows Jameson's thinking way to analyze the contemporary situation about China's popular culture. Combined with the fact of China's contemporary popular culture situation with Jameson's cultural theory and try to find some possible outlet to China's contemporary popular culture. This thesis also in order to grip a whole and clear view of Jameson's postmodernism cultural theory by reading Jameson's composing and after that try to contact his theory to China's contemporary popular culture to bring Jameson's cultural theory into practice and give a helpful supply to contemporary study on Jameson's cultural theory.