Modernist cultural studies / Catherine Driscoll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driscoll, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Modernism (Art).

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 field

Contents:

Modernist modernity. Pt. 1, Moving pictures : cinema as modernism ; Portrait of the young man as an artist : modernism and adolescence ; Modern love : sex education, popular culture, and the public sphere

Pt. 2, refashioning modernism. The life of a shopgirl : art and the everyday ; Chanel : the order of things ; Between acts : the time of modernism

Pt. 3, The specter of modernism. The age of the world picture ; The invention of culture ; On popular music

Conclusion : Modernist cultural studies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-3842-1

0-8130-4320-4

OCLC:

811507129