LEADER 04034nam 2200649 450 001 9910466148003321 005 20200520144314.0 024 7 $a10.7312/mart18192 035 $a(CKB)3710000001386336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5276001 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5267899 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001980556 035 $a(DE-B1597)480300 035 $a(OCoLC)984512331 035 $a(OCoLC)984686831 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231543897 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5276001 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11529494 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001386336 100 $a20180404h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aContemporary drift $egenre, historicism, and the problem of the present /$fTheodore Martin 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (265 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aLiterature Now 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-231-18192-2 311 $a0-231-54389-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Theses on the Concept of the Contemporary -- $tChapter One. Decade: Period Pieces -- $tChapter Two. Revival: Situating Noir -- $tChapter Three. Waiting: Mysterious Circumstances -- $tChapter Four. Weather: Western Climes -- $tChapter Five. Survival: Work and Plague -- $tConclusion: How to Historicize the Present -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet often unnoticed, part of the literature and film of our moment. In Contemporary Drift, Theodore Martin argues that the contemporary is not just a historical period but also a conceptual problem, and he claims that contemporary genre fiction offers a much-needed resource for resolving that problem.Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical account of contemporary literature and film. Emphasizing both the difficulty and the necessity of historicizing the contemporary, the book explores how recent works of fiction depict life in an age of global capitalism, postindustrialism, and climate change. Through new histories of the novel of manners, film noir, the Western, detective fiction, and the postapocalyptic novel, Martin shows how the problem of the contemporary preoccupies a wide range of novelists and filmmakers, including Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, Vikram Chandra, China Miéville, Kelly Reichardt, and the Coen brothers. Martin argues that genre provides these artists with a formal strategy for understanding both the content and the concept of the contemporary. Genre writing, with its mix of old and new, brings to light the complicated process by which we make sense of our present and determine what belongs to our time. 410 0$aLiterature Now. 606 $aContemporary, The, in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature now 606 $aContemporary, The, in motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aContemporary, The, in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature now. 615 0$aContemporary, The, in motion pictures. 676 $a813.609 700 $aMartin$b Theodore$0389585 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466148003321 996 $aContemporary drift$92455794 997 $aUNINA