Modernism and Its Media
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 2021
272 pages
978-1-350-03317-7 (ISBN)
Description
From cinema and radio broadcasting to the growth of new communication technologies, Modernism and Its Media is the first critical guide to key issues and debates on the changing media contexts of modernist writing.
Topics covered include:
· Key thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Marshall McLuhan
· Modernist film - from Eisenstein to the French New Wave cinema
· Modernism and mass culture
· The history of modernist media and communication technologies
· Modernism's legacies for contemporary new media art
With case studies covering such topics as the film writings of Joyce, Woolf and Eliot, popular art and kitsch, the Frankfurt School and the rise of the gramophone, this is an essential guide for students and scholars researching the relationship between modernism and mass media.
Topics covered include:
· Key thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Marshall McLuhan
· Modernist film - from Eisenstein to the French New Wave cinema
· Modernism and mass culture
· The history of modernist media and communication technologies
· Modernism's legacies for contemporary new media art
With case studies covering such topics as the film writings of Joyce, Woolf and Eliot, popular art and kitsch, the Frankfurt School and the rise of the gramophone, this is an essential guide for students and scholars researching the relationship between modernism and mass media.
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Series
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-350-03317-7 (9781350033177)
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Chris Forster
Modernism and Its Media
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12/2021
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Chris Forster is Assistant Professor of 20th Century British Literature and Culture at Syracuse University, USA.
Content
Introduction: Literature and the Media Technology of the 20th Century
1. Modernism at the Movies: From Soviet Cinema to the New Wave
2. Purifying the Medium: Avant-Garde and Kitsch
3. The Decay of Aura: Modernism in the Age of Mass Culture
4. Rebalancing the Sensorium: Modernism and a History of the Senses
5. The End of the Book, and the Birth of the Modernist Discourse Network
Conclusion: Digital Modernisms
Bibliography
Index
1. Modernism at the Movies: From Soviet Cinema to the New Wave
2. Purifying the Medium: Avant-Garde and Kitsch
3. The Decay of Aura: Modernism in the Age of Mass Culture
4. Rebalancing the Sensorium: Modernism and a History of the Senses
5. The End of the Book, and the Birth of the Modernist Discourse Network
Conclusion: Digital Modernisms
Bibliography
Index
