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Popular Modernism and Its Legacies: From Pop Literature to Video Games

Editat de Professor Scott Ortolano
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2017
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501325113
ISBN-10: 1501325116
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 22 b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Three major sections broadly represent the three areas of primary reader interest (from traditionally modernist texts, to modernist genealogies, to modernist legacies in popular culture)

Notă biografică

Scott Ortolano is Professor of English at Florida SouthWestern State College, USA. He is co-editor of Perspectives on the Short Story and recently co-edited a special issue of the South Atlantic Review focused on sustaining English programs in the 21st century.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionOf Titanics, Wars, Downturns, and Downtons: Popular Modernism and Its LegaciesScott Ortolano, Florida SouthWestern State College, USASection I: New Visions of Popular Modernism1 Gentry Modernism: Cultural Connoisseurship and Midcentury Masculinity, 1951-57Marsha Bryant, University of Florida, USA2 Modernism, Operetta and Ruritania: Ivor Novello's Glamorous Night Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin, Ireland3 Fine Art on the Airwaves: Radio Drama and Modern(ist) Mass CultureAdam Nemmers, Texas Christian University, USA4 "I'm Gonna Be Somebody," 1930: Gangsters and Modernist CelebrityJonathan Goldman, New York Institute of Technology, USA5 Charlie Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, and the Redemption of the CityBarry Faulk, Florida State University, USASection II: Legacies of Popular Modernism6 "Catch a Wave": Surf Noir, Los Angeles, and Modernist NostalgiaKirk Curnutt, Troy University, USA7 Alien Pleasures: Modernism/Hybridity/Science FictionPaul March-Russell, University of Kent, UK8 Josephine Baker's Contemporary Afterlives: Black Female Identity, Modernist Performance, and Popular Legacies of the Jazz AgeAsimina Ino Nikolopoulou, Tufts University, USA9 A Hitchhiker's Guide to Modernism: The Futuristic Fordisms of Aldous Huxley, Brian O'Nolan, and Douglas AdamsAndrew McFeaters, Broward College, USASection III: Resonances of Popular Modernism in the Twenty-First Century 10 Smokescreens to Smokestacks: True Detective and the American Sublime Caroline Blinder, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK11 Of Modernist Second Acts and African American Lives: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Wire, and the Struggle against LockdownWalter Bosse, Brescia University, USA12 Don Draper's Identity Crisis and Mad Men's Modernist Masculinity Camelia Raghinaru, Concordia University, USA13 A Century of Reading Time: From Modernist Novels to Contemporary ComicsAimee Armande Wilson, University of Kansas, USA14 Hemingway's Console: Memory and Ethics in the Modernist Video Game Dustin Anderson, Georgia Southern University, USAAfterwordFaye Hammill, University of Strathclyde, UK

Recenzii

Among the more profound shifts in the general fields of literary, theoretical and cultural studies in the past two decades has been the rethinking of Modernism beyond its narrowest period restrictions, as a between-the-wars phenomenon, say, and into its multiplicity, into Modernisms. Popular Modernism and its Legacy: from Pop Culture to Video Games is a major contribution to that ongoing discourse as it re-examines and re-evaluates what is too often considered an elitist, formalist or technical literature in terms of its broader ramifications, as "Popular Modernism." This collection of essays is a major contribution to reshaping that discourse and will be welcomed and embraced not only by students, scholars and teachers of Modernism but by those of Popular Culture as well, as it closes the artificial divide separating high and low cultures, where modernist novels coexist with contemporary comics and where Charlie Chaplin meets Walter Benjamin.
Popular Modernism and Its Legacies maps with verve and insight crucial sites where modernism and mass culture merged indistinguishably, and demonstrates that the resulting hybrids still have much to teach us about how to understand our recent past and how to inhabit our conflicted present. Ranging over a broad variety of texts and media-from TV series and comic books to popular music, Hollywood films and video games-the essays in this exciting collection combine fine-grained textual analysis, historical awareness, and theoretical sophistication. They cast new light on well-known texts and figures (Chaplin, Josephine Baker), reveal the presence of classic modernist concerns in contemporary media, and chart unheeded formations, such as the experimental radio drama, the modernist operetta, or 'Surf Noir.' Above all, they manage to keep modernism surprising, alive, and unpredictable.