John Storey - Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

Harvard referencing
Storey, J (2006). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 81-83.

3 contextual facts about Storey

• Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre of Research in Media and Cultural Studies and The University of Sunderland
• He is also on the editorial/advisory boards of journals in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, the UK, and USA.
• He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, the University of Henan and the University of Wuhan.

3 key points about the narrative

• Identifying with someone in the movie can be comparable to a child's ego. - The Mirror Phase
• The two forms of visual pleasure are contradictory
• Women are not looked at as sexual objects but rather for their beauty

3 key quotes

• 'Just as a child recognizes and misrecognises itself in the mirror, the spectator recognizes and misrecognizes itself on the screen... His recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more complete, more perfect than he experiences in his own body' (Storey 2006: 82)
• 'Two contradictory forms of visual pleasure. The first invites scopophilia; the second promotes narcissism' (Storey 2006: 82)
• 'Fantasy is not the same as illusion; rather fantasy organizes how we see and understand reality' (Storey 2006: 83)