Modernist cultural studies [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine Driscoll

• Autore: Driscoll Catherine
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.9112; 809/.9112
• Soggetto topico: Culture; Modernism (Art); Modernism (Literature)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Modernist modernity. Pt. 1, Moving pictures : cinema as modernism ; Portrait of the young man as an artist : modernism and adolescence ; Modern love : sex education, popular culture, and the public sphere -- Pt. 2, refashioning modernism. The life of a shopgirl : art and the everyday ; Chanel : the order of things ; Between acts : the time of modernism -- Pt. 3, The specter of modernism. The age of the world picture ; The invention of culture ; On popular music -- Conclusion : Modernist cultural studies.
• Sommario/riassunto: For many scholars, cultural studies is viewed as a product of postmodern criticism and as the antithesis of modernism. In this brilliant work, Catherine Driscoll argues persuasively that we must view what we call cultural studies as a direct continuation of the innovations and concerns of modernism and the modernists. In making her case, Driscoll provides a fresh take on arguments--some seemingly unresolvable--that pivot on modernism's desire for novelty. Defining modernity as a critical attitude rather than a time period, she describes the many things these ostensibly different field
• Titolo autorizzato: Modernist cultural studies
• ISBN: 0-8130-3842-1; 0-8130-4320-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789497403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II