Popular modernism and its legacies : from pop literature to video games
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Popular modernism and its legacies : from pop literature to video games
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Of Titanics, Wars, Downturns, and Downtons: Popular Modernism and Its Legacies
Scott Ortolano, Florida SouthWestern State College, USA
Section I: New Visions of Popular Modernism
1 Gentry Modernism: Cultural Connoisseurship and Midcentury Masculinity, 1951-57
Marsha Bryant, University of Florida, USA
2 Modernism, Operetta and Ruritania: Ivor Novello's Glamorous Night
Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin, Ireland
3 Fine Art on the Airwaves: Radio Drama and Modern(ist) Mass Culture
Adam Nemmers, Texas Christian University, USA
4 "I'm Gonna Be Somebody," 1930: Gangsters and Modernist Celebrity
Jonathan Goldman, New York Institute of Technology, USA
5 Charlie Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, and the Redemption of the City
Barry Faulk, Florida State University, USA
Section II: Legacies of Popular Modernism
6 "Catch a Wave": Surf Noir, Los Angeles, and Modernist Nostalgia
Kirk Curnutt, Troy University, USA
7 Alien Pleasures: Modernism/Hybridity/Science Fiction
Paul March-Russell, University of Kent, UK
8 Josephine Baker's Contemporary Afterlives: Black Female Identity, Modernist Performance, and Popular Legacies of the Jazz Age
Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou, Tufts University, USA
9 A Hitchhiker's Guide to Modernism: The Futuristic Fordisms of Aldous Huxley, Brian O'Nolan, and Douglas Adams
Andrew McFeaters, Broward College, USA
Section 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, UK
11 Of Modernist Second Acts and African American Lives: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Wire, and the Struggle against Lockdown
Walter Bosse, Brescia University, USA
12 Don Draper's Identity Crisis and Mad Men's Modernist Masculinity
Camelia Raghinaru, Concordia University, USA
13 A Century of Reading Time: From Modernist Novels to Contemporary Comics
Aimee Armande Wilson, University of Kansas, USA
14 Hemingway's Console: Memory and Ethics in the Modernist Video Game
Dustin Anderson, Georgia Southern University, USA
Afterword
Faye Hammill, University of Strathclyde, UK
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