A challenging and timely contribution to contemporary debates in the study of popular culture. Preface, Introduction: Popular Culture and ''the Turn to Gramsci'', Themes and Issues, The Politics of the ''Popular'' and Popular Culture, Popular Culture and the State, Complicit Pleasures, Popular Culture: Historical and Social Relations, The Tale of Samuel and Jemima: Gender and Working Class Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century England, ''Good Luck War Workers!'' Class and Politics and Entertainment in Wartime Broadcasting, The Dialectic of National Identity: The Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938, Hegemony and Ideology and Pleasure: Blackpool, Form and Ideology in Popular Culture, In the Groove or Blowing Your Mind? The Pleasures of Musical Repetition, That's Entertainment: The Resilience of Popular Forms, Fictions and Ideologies: The Case of Situation Comedy, ''This is not the boy Scouts'': Television Police Series and Definitions of Law and Order, Index.