Here is a list of additional readings that may be useful for further exploring the topic of popular culture and cultural studies:

1. Agger, Ben (ed.). Cultural Studies as Cultural Theory. London: Falmer Press, 1992. This book offers some useful commentary on popular culture, especially Chapter 2: “Popular culture as serious business.”

2. Allen, Robert C. (ed.). Channels of Discourse: Reassembled. London: Routledge, 1992. Although this collection is specifically focused on television, it contains some excellent essays of general interest to the student of popular culture.

3. Brooker, Peter. A Concise Glossary of Cultural Theory. London: Edward Arnold, 1999. This book provides a brilliant glossary of the key terms in cultural theory.

4. Day, Gary (ed.). Readings in Popular Culture. London: Macmillan, 1990. A mixed collection of essays, some interesting and useful, others too unsure about how seriously to take popular culture.

5. Du Gay, Paul; Stuart Hall; Linda Janes; Hugh Mackay; and Keith Negus. Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman. London: Sage, 1997. An excellent introduction to some of the key issues in cultural studies, including the explanation of “the circuit of culture.”

6. Fiske, John. Reading the Popular. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. A collection of essays analyzing different examples of popular culture.

7. Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. A clear presentation of his particular approach to the study of popular culture.

8. Goodall, Peter. High Culture, Popular Culture: The Long Debate. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1995. This book traces the debate between high and popular culture, with particular reference to the Australian experience from the  eighteenth century to the present day.

9. Milner, Andrew. Contemporary Cultural Studies. 2nd edn. London: UCL Press, 1994. A useful introduction to contemporary cultural theory.

10. Mukerji, Chandra; and Michael Schudson (eds.). Rethinking Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. A collection of essays with an informed and interesting introduction. The book is helpfully divided into sections on different approaches to popular culture: historical, anthropological, sociological, and cultural.

11. Naremore, James; and Patrick Brantlinger. Modernity and Mass Culture. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991. This book offers a collection of essays that examine the relationship between modernity and mass culture.

12. Storey, John. Inventing Popular Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003. An excellent historical account of the concept of popular culture from the 18th century to the present day.

13. Turnbridge, Paul; and Chris Tite (eds.). Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy. London: Pluto Press, 1997. A collection of essays that examine the relationship between cultural studies and cultural policy.

14. Waller, Martin. The Mass Media and American Politics. New York: Praeger, 1983. This book examines the impact of mass media on politics in America.

15. Williams, Richard. Culture, Ideology and Symbolic Language: Essays in Honor of Stuart Hall. London: Unwin Hyman, 1984. A collection of essays that examine the relationship between culture, ideology, and symbolic language.