Postmodernism and popular culture a cultural history / [[Book] :]
John Docker.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- 313 p. ; 24 cm.
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).
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Modernism (Art). Postmodernism. Arts, Modern--20th century. Popular culture.