Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / John Docker.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.Description: xxi, 313 p. ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:- 052146045X
- 0521465982 (pbk.)
- 9780521460453:
- 306
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Lending | Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending | 306 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 43167 |
CW027
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-306) and index.
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).
CW124
24.40