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Autore: | Docker John |
Titolo: | Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / / John Docker |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge ; ; New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (344 p. ) : 10 b/w illus |
Disciplina: | 700/.9/045 |
Soggetto topico: | Popular culture - Study and teaching |
Popular culture | |
Postmodernism - Political aspects | |
Postmodernism - Social aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Postmodernism and popular culture |
ISBN: | 1-134-90087-2 |
0-415-07712-5 | |
1-280-07499-X | |
0-203-16833-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910450420903321 |
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