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Considers the work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists and new areas of postmodernist culture which have developed over the years, especially in law, music, dance, spatial theory, ethnography, ecology, and the new technologies.

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The best overall attempt to consider the postmodern debate across the board - from philosophy to literature to film to architecture to pop video and to popular culture - in an accessible and open style." Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian (of the first edition)

Table of Contents
Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Contexts.

1. Postmodernism and the Academy.

Part II: Posterities. .

2. Postmodernities: Postmodern Social and Legal Theory.

3. Postmodernism in Architecture and the Visual Arts.

4. Postmodernism and Literature.

5. Postmodern Performance.

6. Postmodern TV, Video and Film.

7. Postmodernism and Popular Culture.

Part III: Consequences.

8 Post-Modesty: Renunciation and the Sublime.

9. Postmodernism and Cultural Politics.

Bibliography.

Index.

Postmodernist Culture An Introduction to Theories

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/1996
      ISBN13: 9780631200529, 978-0631200529
      ISBN10: 0631200525
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Considers the work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists and new areas of postmodernist culture which have developed over the years, especially in law, music, dance, spatial theory, ethnography, ecology, and the new technologies.

      Trade Review
      The best overall attempt to consider the postmodern debate across the board - from philosophy to literature to film to architecture to pop video and to popular culture - in an accessible and open style." Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian (of the first edition)

      Table of Contents
      Preface.

      Acknowledgements.

      Part I: Contexts.

      1. Postmodernism and the Academy.

      Part II: Posterities. .

      2. Postmodernities: Postmodern Social and Legal Theory.

      3. Postmodernism in Architecture and the Visual Arts.

      4. Postmodernism and Literature.

      5. Postmodern Performance.

      6. Postmodern TV, Video and Film.

      7. Postmodernism and Popular Culture.

      Part III: Consequences.

      8 Post-Modesty: Renunciation and the Sublime.

      9. Postmodernism and Cultural Politics.

      Bibliography.

      Index.

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