Postmodernism and Popular Culture A Cultural History

Name: Postmodernism and Popular Culture A Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780521465984

ISBN-10: 0521465982

ISBN-13: 9780521465984

Edition: 1994

Authors: John Docker

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In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey 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. Along the way readers will visit the architecture of Le Corbusier, take a ride on the Sydney monorail, watch Prisoner (Cell Block H) on TV, come into contact with Derrida, read some crime fiction and enter into the world of carnival. The book engages, in a stimulating and illuminating way, with some of the most important academic debates of…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/12/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

John Docker is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. He is the author of 1492: The Poetics of Diaspora (2001), Postmodernism and Popular Culture (1994) and (with Ann Curthoys) Is History Fiction? (2005).



List of Plates


Preface


Introduction



Modernism in Conflict



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



Modernism and Postmodernism



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



Carnival



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)


Conclusion: Carnival and Contemporary Popular Culture


Notes


Index