Modernist Cultural Studies:
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Main Author: Driscoll, Catherine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Florida University Press of Florida 2010
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Item Description: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 fields of i
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Critical Attitude; PART 1. MODERNIST MODERNITY; 1. Moving Pictures: Cinema as Modernism; 2. Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist: Modernism and Adolescence; 3. Modern Love: Sex Education, Popular Culture, and the Public Sphere; PART 2. REFASHIONING MODERNISM; 4. The Life of a Shopgirl: Art and the Everyday; 5. Chanel: The Order of Things; 6. Between the Acts: The Time of Modernism; PART 3. THE SPECTER OF MODERNISM; 7. The Age of the World Picture; 8. The Invention of Culture; 9. On Popular Music
Conclusion: Modernist Cultural StudiesNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
ISBN:0813043204
9780813043203

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