Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural HistoryAn intellectual adventure, this book engages with some of the most important academic debates of our time. |
Contents
Architectural Modernism Le Corbusier | 2 |
Literary Modernism | 15 |
Modernism versus Popular Literature | 24 |
The Frankfurt School versus Walter Benjamin | 36 |
Flowering of an Orthodoxy | 51 |
Myths of Origin 1970s Screen Theory and Literary History | 64 |
Modernism and Postmodernism | 81 |
Architectural Postmodernism Learning from Las Vegas | 82 |
Carnival | 167 |
Bakhtins Carnival | 168 |
Dilemmas of World Upside Down | 186 |
Fools CarnivalTheatreVaudevilleTelevision | 198 |
Fool Trickster Social Explorer The Detective | 219 |
Crime Fiction as Changing Genre | 233 |
Melodrama Farce Soap Opera | 245 |
Melodrama in Action Prisoner or Cell Block H with Ann Curthoys | 260 |
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