Postmadern Turn Of Popular Culture Theory

Compared with the study of Popular culture Criticize Theory represented by Frankfurt school in the early time, the study of Popular culture represented by post modern theorists such as Lyotar, Foucault, Baudrillard, Jameson, embodies a integral turn of its contents and evaluation, gives legality to postmodern popular culture, and provides the rationale for the full-development of Popular culture. Therefore, this kind of turn can be defined as Postmodern turn of Popular culture Theory.Postmodernism theorists realized the changes experienced by advanced capitalism, consumerism and media society which are determined by landscape and image, and fully developed a more generalized theory which made a breakthrough in the traditional boundary. By introducing popular culture to break the antagonism between elegant and vulgar art, they expanded Popular culture's space of legality, and provide popular culture with theoretical background. Therefore, compared with the popular culture criticize theory in the early time, Postmodernism's embodies the turn of popular culture theory's study and evaluation.Therefore, we should have the correct evaluation and understanding of western contemporary Popular culture criticize Theory's development, well comprehend Popular culture's essence and characters, and analyze its positive function and negative influence, in order that we can get a overall understanding of Popular culture, give a correct guidance to the right development of Chinese Moss culture, and affords Chinese popular cultureand culture's development rationalization lessons.The full text is divided into seven sections.Introduction is the overall study of popular culture theory study and developing situation. In the introduction, we made a theoretical discussion and study of popular culture's connotation and genetic background, and analyze popular culture practice's basic elements in details. We made a necessary semantic analysis of some concepts such as culture, popular culture, popular culture criticize, and popular culture theory. We discussed the differences among the forms of Popular culture, elite culture and folk culture. We described Popular culture's characters, and Chinese and western popular culture theory study's present situations, we analyzed popular culture in its entirety.Chapter I is about the study of popular culture criticize theory in the early time. It mainly refers to Frankfurt School of popular culture criticize theory and popular-culture criticize Theory Resource's study represented by Althusser, Gramsci, and Williams. Chapter II is about the study of postmodern turn of popular culture theory, It was analyzed in the aspects of Postmodernism's rise, Postmodern turn in art and mind fields, the development of postmodern network culture, and the main schools of postmodern popular culture theory. Chapter III and chapter IV are about the study of popular culture theory's contents and forms. In the contents we talk about the consume culture, media culture and culture industry. In the forms, we talk about the turn of postmodern popular 's culture everyday life, the combination of the boundaries between popular culture and everyday life, and the rise of vision culture. We also discuss some theoretical problems about popular culture and postmodern politics. We try our best to give acomplete description of Postmodern Popular culture, and analyze the turn of postmodern popular culture theory deep. Chapter V is about the study of postmodern popular culture's essence and the value we should hold. By analyzing the various phenomena of postmodern popular culture and generalizing postmodern popular culture's essential character and studying how to hold a value, we can give a overall evaluation. Chapter VI is about postmodernism and Chinese popular culture, and on this basis developing tendency of Chinese popular culture and thoughts on Chinese culture's transformation are discussed.