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Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history, John Docker

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xxi, 313 p.
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)
Isbn
9780521460453
Instance
Label
Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history
Title
Postmodernism and popular culture
Title remainder
a cultural history
Statement of responsibility
John Docker
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
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
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Docker, John
Index
index present
LC call number
NX456.5.M64
LC item number
D63 1994
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Modernism (Art)
  • Postmodernism
  • Arts, Modern
  • Popular culture
  • Modernisme (art)
  • Populaire cultuur
  • Modernisme (Art)
  • Postmodernisme
  • Arts
  • Culture populaire
  • Arts, Modern
  • Modernism (Art)
  • Popular culture
  • Postmodernism
  • Populaire cultuur
  • Postmodernisme
  • Massenkultur
  • Postmoderne
  • Modernisme (art)
  • Postmodernisme
  • Culture populaire
  • Massenkultur
  • Postmoderne
Label
Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history, John Docker
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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)
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xxi, 313 p.
Isbn
9780521460453
Lccn
94011552
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)30436582
  • (OCoLC)ocm30436582
Label
Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history, John Docker
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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)
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xxi, 313 p.
Isbn
9780521460453
Lccn
94011552
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)30436582
  • (OCoLC)ocm30436582

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