{"product_id":"popular-modernism-and-its-legacies-9781501354595","title":"Popular Modernism and Its Legacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePopular Modernism and Its Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e reconfigures modernist studies to investigate how modernist concepts, figures, and aesthetics continue to play essential--though often undetected--roles across an array of contemporary works, genres, and mediums.  Featuring both established and emerging scholars, each of the book''s three sections offers a distinct perspective on popular modernism. The first section considers popular modernism in periods historically associated with the movement, discovering hidden connections between traditional forms of modernist literature and popular culture. The second section traces modernist genealogies from the past to the contemporary era, ultimately revealing that immensely popular contemporary works, artists, and genres continue to engage and thereby renew modernist aesthetics and values. The final section moves into the 21st century, discovering how popular works invoke modernist techniques, texts, and artists to explore social and existential quand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the more profound shifts in the general fields of literary, theoretical and cultural studies in the past two decades has been the rethinking of Modernism beyond its narrowest period restrictions, as a between-the-wars phenomenon, say, and into its multiplicity, into Modernisms.  \u003ci\u003ePopular Modernism and its Legacy:  from Pop Culture to Video Games\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to that ongoing discourse as it re-examines and re-evaluates what is too often considered an elitist, formalist or technical literature in terms of its broader ramifications, as “Popular Modernism.”  This collection of essays is a major contribution to reshaping that discourse and will be welcomed and embraced not only by students, scholars and teachers of Modernism but by those of Popular Culture as well, as it closes the artificial divide separating high and low cultures, where modernist novels coexist with contemporary comics and where Charlie Chaplin meets Walter Benjamin. * S. E. Gontarski, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English, Florida State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePopular Modernism and Its Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e maps with verve and insight crucial sites where modernism and mass culture merged indistinguishably, and demonstrates that the resulting hybrids still have much to teach us about how to understand our recent past and how to inhabit our conflicted present. Ranging over a broad variety of texts and media—from TV series and comic books to popular music, Hollywood films and video games—the essays in this exciting collection combine fine-grained textual analysis, historical awareness, and theoretical sophistication. They cast new light on well-known texts and figures (Chaplin, Josephine Baker), reveal the presence of classic modernist concerns in contemporary media, and chart unheeded formations, such as the experimental radio drama, the modernist operetta, or 'Surf Noir.' Above all, they manage to keep modernism surprising, alive, and unpredictable. * Juan Antonio Suárez, Professor of English, University of Murcia, Spain *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Illustrations  \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e Of Titanics, Wars, Downturns, and Downtons: Popular Modernism and Its Legacies \u003ci\u003eScott Ortolano, Florida SouthWestern State College, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection I: New Visions of Popular Modernism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003ci\u003eGentry\u003c\/i\u003e Modernism: Cultural Connoisseurship and Midcentury Masculinity, 1951-57 \u003ci\u003eMarsha Bryant, University of Florida, USA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e Modernism, Operetta and Ruritania: Ivor Novello’s \u003ci\u003eGlamorous Night\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eNicholas Daly, University College Dublin, Ireland \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eFine Art on the Airwaves: Radio Drama and Modern(ist) Mass Culture \u003ci\u003eAdam Nemmers, Texas Christian University, USA \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e “I'm Gonna Be Somebody,” 1930: Gangsters and Modernist Celebrity \u003ci\u003eJonathan Goldman, New York Institute of Technology, USA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e Charlie Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, and the Redemption of the City \u003ci\u003eBarry Faulk, Florida State University, USA \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eSection II: Legacies of Popular Modernism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e6\u003c\/b\u003e “Catch a Wave”: Surf Noir, Los Angeles, and Modernist Nostalgia \u003ci\u003eKirk Curnutt, Troy University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e7 \u003c\/b\u003eAlien Pleasures: Modernism\/Hybridity\/Science Fiction \u003ci\u003ePaul March-Russell, University of Kent, UK\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e8\u003c\/b\u003e Josephine Baker’s Contemporary Afterlives: Black Female Identity, Modernist Performance, and Popular Legacies of the Jazz Age \u003ci\u003eAsimina Ino Nikolopoulou, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTufts University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, USA \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 \u003c\/b\u003e  A Hitchhiker's Guide to Modernism: The Futuristic Fordisms of Aldous Huxley, Brian O'Nolan, and Douglas Adams \u003ci\u003eAndrew McFeaters, Broward College, USA \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eSection III: Resonances of Popular Modernism in the Twenty-First Century \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e10 \u003c\/b\u003eSmokescreens to Smokestacks: \u003ci\u003eTrue Detective\u003c\/i\u003e and the American Sublime  \u003ci\u003eCaroline Blinder, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e11   \u003c\/b\u003eOf Modernist Second Acts and African American Lives: F. Scott Fitzgerald, \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Struggle against Lockdown \u003ci\u003eWalter Bosse, Brescia University, USA \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e12\u003c\/b\u003e Don Draper’s Identity Crisis and \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e’s Modernist Masculinity  \u003ci\u003eCamelia Raghinaru, Concordia University, USA \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 \u003c\/b\u003eA Century of Reading Time: From Modernist Novels to Contemporary Comics \u003ci\u003eAimee Armande Wilson, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Kansas, USA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e14\u003c\/b\u003e Hemingway’s Console: Memory and Ethics in the Modernist Video Game  \u003ci\u003eDustin Anderson, Georgia Southern University, USA \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eAfterword\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eFaye Hammill, University of Strathclyde, UK\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019958518103,"sku":"9781501354595","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501354595.jpg?v=1750781881","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/popular-modernism-and-its-legacies-9781501354595","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}