Popular modernism and its legacies : from pop literature to video games /: from pop literature to video games. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Scott Ortolano ; with an afterword by Faye Hammill.
• Editors: Ortolano, Scott
• Contents: Introduction -- Of titanics, wars, downturns, and downtons : popular modernism and its legacies / Scott Ortolano -- New visions of popular modernism -- Gentry modernism : cultural connoisseurship and midcentury masculinity, 1951-1957 / Marsha Bryant -- Modernism, operetta and ruritania : Ivor Novello's glamorous night / Nicholas Daly -- Fine art on the airwaves : radio drama and modern(ist) mass culture / Adam Nemmers -- "I'm gonna be somebody, " 1930 : gangsters and modernist celebrity / Jonathan Goldman -- Charlie Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, and the redemption of the city / Barry Faulk -- Legacies of popular modernism -- "Catch a wave" : surf noir and modernist nostalgia / Kirk Curnutt -- Alien pleasures : modernism/hybridity/science fiction / Paul March-Russell -- Josephine Baker's contemporary afterlives : black female identity, modernist performance, and popular legacies of the jazz age / Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou -- A hitchhiker's guide to modernism : the futurist fordisms of Aldous Huxley, Brian O'Nolan, and Douglas Adams / Andrew McFeaters -- Resonances of popular modernism in the twenty-first century -- Smokescreens to smokestacks : true detective and the American sublime / Caroline Blinder -- Of modernist second acts and African American lives : F. Scott Fitzgerald, the wire, and the struggle against lockdown / Walter Bosse -- Don draper's identity crisis and mad men's modernist masculinity / Camelia Raghinaru -- A century of reading time : Don Draper's identity crisis / Aimee Armande Wilson -- Hemingway's console : memory and ethics in the modernist video game / Dustin Anderson -- Afterword faye hammill -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4/7; Film, TV & radio; Arts and society; Modernism (Art) -- Social aspects; Modernism (Literature) -- Social aspects; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501325120; 1501325124
• Related ISBNs: 9781501325137; 1501325132; 9781501325113; 1501325116
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2017).
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