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Autore |
Docker John |
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Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / / John Docker |
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Cambridge ; ; New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994 |
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ISBN |
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0-521-46598-2 |
1-134-90086-4 |
1-134-90087-2 |
0-415-07712-5 |
1-280-07499-X |
0-203-16833-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (344 p. ) : 10 b/w illus |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Popular culture - Study and teaching |
Popular culture |
Postmodernism - Political aspects |
Postmodernism - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; Introduction; Part I. Modernism in Conflict: 1. Architectural modernism; 2. Literary modernism; 3. Modernism versus popular literature; 4. The Frankfurt School versus Walter Benjamin; 5. Flowering of an orthodoxy; 6. Myths of origin; 1970's screen theory and literary history; Part II. Modernism and Postmodernism: 7. Architectural postmodernism: learning from Las Vegas; 8. From Las Vegas to Sydney; 9. Are we living in a Postmodern Age?; 10. Mapping Frederic Jameson's grand narrative; 11. From structuralism to postructuralism: Derrida; 12. Cultural studies; Transitional moments from modernism to postmodernism; Part III. Carnival: 13. Bakhtin's carnival; 14. Dilemmas of a world upside down; 15. Fools: carnival-theatre-Vaudeville-television; 16. Fool, trickster, social explorer - the detective; 17. Crime fiction as a changing genre; 18. Melodrama, farce, soap opera; 19. Melodrama in action: Prisoner or Cell Block H; Conclusion: Carnival and contemporary popular culture; Notes; Index. |
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