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Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / John Docker. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1994.Description: xxi, 313 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 052146045X
  • 9780521460453
  • 0521465982
  • 9780521465984
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NX456.5.P678 1994
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Contents:
Architectural modernism: Le Corbusier Literary modernism Modernism versus popular literature The Frankfurt school versus Walter Benjamin Flowering of an orthodoxy Myths of origin: 1970s screen theory and literary history Architectural postmodernism: learning from Las Vegas From Las Vegas to Sydney Are we living in a postmodern age? -- Mapping Frederic Jameson's grand narrative From structuralism to poststructuralism Cultural studies: transitional moments from modernism to postmodernism Bakhtin's carnival Dilemmas of world upside down.
Fools: carnival-theatre-vaudeville-television Fool, trickster, social explorer: the detective Crime fiction as changing genre Melodrama, farce, soap opera Melodrama in action: prisoner, or cell block H (with Ann Curthoys).
Summary: In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. It is a journey that includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. The book engages, in a stimulating and illuminating way, with some of the most important academic debates of our time. It combines polemical force with intellectual rigour, reclaiming popular culture from the forces opposed to it. Postmodernism and Popular Culture examines the attitudes of advocates of modernism and postmodernism, and many allied with the left, to popular culture, and is a detailed and thoughtful analysis of the nature of popular culture itself.
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Architectural modernism: Le Corbusier Literary modernism Modernism versus popular literature The Frankfurt school versus Walter Benjamin Flowering of an orthodoxy Myths of origin: 1970s screen theory and literary history Architectural postmodernism: learning from Las Vegas From Las Vegas to Sydney Are we living in a postmodern age? -- Mapping Frederic Jameson's grand narrative From structuralism to poststructuralism Cultural studies: transitional moments from modernism to postmodernism Bakhtin's carnival Dilemmas of world upside down.

Fools: carnival-theatre-vaudeville-television Fool, trickster, social explorer: the detective Crime fiction as changing genre Melodrama, farce, soap opera Melodrama in action: prisoner, or cell block H (with Ann Curthoys).

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. It is a journey that includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. The book engages, in a stimulating and illuminating way, with some of the most important academic debates of our time. It combines polemical force with intellectual rigour, reclaiming popular culture from the forces opposed to it. Postmodernism and Popular Culture examines the attitudes of advocates of modernism and postmodernism, and many allied with the left, to popular culture, and is a detailed and thoughtful analysis of the nature of popular culture itself.

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