Modernist Cultural Studies.
Material type: TextPublisher: Florida : University Press of Florida, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813043203Subject(s): Modernism (Literature)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernist Cultural StudiesDDC classification: 809/.9112 LOC classification: PN56.M54 -- D75 2010ebOnline resources: Click to ViewCover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Critical Attitude -- PART 1. MODERNIST MODERNITY -- 1. Moving Pictures: Cinema as Modernism -- 2. Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist: Modernism and Adolescence -- 3. Modern Love: Sex Education, Popular Culture, and the Public Sphere -- PART 2. REFASHIONING MODERNISM -- 4. The Life of a Shopgirl: Art and the Everyday -- 5. Chanel: The Order of Things -- 6. Between the Acts: The Time of Modernism -- PART 3. THE SPECTER OF MODERNISM -- 7. The Age of the World Picture -- 8. The Invention of Culture -- 9. On Popular Music -- Conclusion: Modernist Cultural Studies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.
For many scholars, cultural studies is viewed as a product of postmodern criticism and as the antithesis of modernism. In this brilliant work, Catherine Driscoll argues persuasively that we must view what we call cultural studies as a direct continuation of the innovations and concerns of modernism and the modernists. In making her case, Driscoll provides a fresh take on arguments--some seemingly unresolvable--that pivot on modernism's desire for novelty. Defining modernity as a critical attitude rather than a time period, she describes the many things these ostensibly different fields of inquiry have in common and reveals why cultural studies must be viewed as a fundamentally modernist project. Casting a wide net across the shared interests of modernism and cultural studies, including cinema, fiction, fashion, art, and popular music, Driscoll explores such themes as love and work, adolescence and everyday life, the significance of the everyday, the popular as a field of power, and the importance of representation to identity and experience in modernity.
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