Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / / John Docker

• Autore: Docker John
• 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
• 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: 0-521-46598-2; 1-134-90086-4; 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.: 9910783440303321
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