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1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Of titanics, wars, downturns, and downtons : popular modernism and its legacies / Scott Ortolano -- New visions of popular modernism -- Gentry modernism : cultural connoisseurship and midcentury masculinity, 1951-1957 / Marsha Bryant -- Modernism, operetta and ruritania : Ivor Novello's glamorous night / Nicholas Daly -- Fine art on the airwaves : radio drama and modern(ist) mass culture / Adam Nemmers -- "I'm gonna be somebody," 1930 : gangsters and modernist celebrity / Jonathan Goldman -- Charlie Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, and the redemption of the city / Barry Faulk -- Legacies of popular modernism -- "Catch a wave" : surf noir and modernist nostalgia / Kirk Curnutt -- Alien pleasures : modernism/hybridity/science fiction / Paul March-Russell -- Josephine Baker's contemporary afterlives : black female identity, modernist performance, and popular legacies of the jazz age / Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou -- A hitchhiker's guide to modernism : the futurist fordisms of Aldous Huxley, Brian O'Nolan, and Douglas Adams / Andrew McFeaters -- Resonances of popular modernism in the twenty-first century -- Smokescreens to smokestacks : true detective and the American sublime / Caroline Blinder -- Of modernist second acts and African American lives : F. Scott Fitzgerald, the wire, and the struggle against lockdown / Walter Bosse -- Don draper's identity crisis and mad men's modernist masculinity / Camelia Raghinaru -- A century of reading time : Don Draper's identity crisis / Aimee Armande Wilson -- Hemingway's console : memory and ethics in the modernist video game / Dustin Anderson -- Afterword faye hammill -- Notes on contributors -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Popular Modernism and Its Legacies reconfigures modernist studies to investigate how modernist concepts, figures, and aesthetics continue to play essential--though often undetected--roles across an array of contemporary works, genres, and mediums. Featuring both established and emerging scholars, each of the book's three sections offers a distinct perspective on popular modernism. The first section considers popular modernism in periods historically associated with the movement, discovering hidden connections between traditional forms of modernist literature and popular culture. The second section traces modernist genealogies from the past to the contemporary era, ultimately revealing that immensely popular contemporary works, artists, and genres continue to engage and thereby renew modernist aesthetics and values. The final section moves into the 21st century, discovering how popular works invoke modernist techniques, texts, and artists to explore social and existential quandaries in the contemporary world. Concluding with an afterword from noted scholar Faye Hammill, Popular Modernism and Its Legacies reshapes the study of modernism and provides new perspectives on important works at the center of our cultural imagination."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts and society.
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Arts and society. |
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Modernism (Art) -- Social aspects.
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Modernism (Art) |
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Social aspects. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- Social aspects.
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Film, TV & radio. |
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Literary studies: from c 1900. |
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Modernism (Literature) |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ortolano, Scott, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Popular modernism and its legacies. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2017] 9781501325113 (DLC) 2017025556 |
| ISBN |
9781501325120 (electronic book) |
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1501325124 (electronic book) |
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9781501325137 (electronic book) |
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1501325132 (electronic book) |
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9781501325144 |
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1501325140 |
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9781501325113 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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1501325116 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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