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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825851103321

Autore

McRobbie Angela

Titolo

Postmodernism and popular culture / / Angela McRobbie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

0-203-16833-X

0-415-07712-5

0-521-46598-2

1-134-90086-4

1-134-90087-2

1-280-07499-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p. ) : 10 b/w illus

Altri autori (Persone)

McRobbieAngela

Disciplina

700/.9/045

Soggetti

Popular culture - Study and teaching

Popular culture

Postmodernism - Political aspects

Postmodernism - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

An intellectual adventure, this book engages with some of the most important academic debates of our time.