Postmodernism and Popular Culture
A Cultural History
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- Author: John Docker, University of Technology, Sydney
- Date Published: January 1995
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521465984
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In this provocative study, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes a guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of structuralism and poststructuralism, and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. It ranges widely, from theoretical discussion to consideration of everything from architecture, television and detective writing to Sydney's monorail. The book engages with some of the most important debates of our time, combining polemical force with intellectual rigor, and reclaims popular culture from the forces opposed to it.
Read more- Lively, stimulating, provocative prose; book is written in a personal style
- Broad-ranging – considers a vast range of subjects, without becoming slight and without becoming incoherent
- Important contribution to currently raging academic debates - surveys modernism and postmodernism and place of popular culture within both
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- Date Published: January 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521465984
- length: 344 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Modernism in Conflict:
1. Architectural modernism
2. Literary modernism
3. Modernism versus popular literture
4. The Frankfurt School versus Walter Benjamin
5. Flowering of an orthodoxy
6. Myths of origin
1970s 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 fown
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.
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