00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685474870047032659 Buklod 20230417144852.0 ta r |||| u| ta 230417s1991 inua |rb s101 0 eng 90041881 0253206278 (pbk.) 2471117 DLC DMC rda eng DMLUC NX 456 M634 1991 Modernity and mass culture edited by James Naremore and Patrick Brantlinger. Bloomington Indiana University Press c1991. [vii], 278 pages illustrations 23 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "Most of the essays ... were delivered at Indiana University during 1988 and 1989, in a series of lectures entitled 'The Theory and interpretation of mass culture'"--Introd. Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 271-278). Modernity and Mass Culture is a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between industrialization, democracy, and art in the twentieth century. US and British scholars discuss the interaction between "high," "popular," and "mass" art, showing how Western culture as a whole is affected by the transition from the modern to the postmodern era. Their essays deal with advertisements, films, recorded music, television, and mass-market literature. Among the topics addressed are assembly-line manufacture, home entertainment, popular reception, avant-garde theory, "post-feminist" fiction, and "retro" style. These stimulating essays will be of interest to anyone concerned with the problems of the modern vs. the post modern, or the elite vs. the popular. They create a synthesis of the humanities with the social sciences; they renew some old debates about modern society; and they define important issues that will continue to animate contemporary cultural studies. The contributors include Christopher Anderson, Patrick Brantingler, Jims Collins, Michael Denning, Janice L. Donae, John Fiske, Devon Hodges, Lynne Joyrich, Barbara Klinger, James Naremore, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Richard Ohmann, Robert B. Ray, Stephen Watt, and Peter Wollen. Arts, Modern 20th century. Arts and society History 20th century. Naremore, James. editor. Brantlinger, Patrick 1941- editor. Book FO UPD DMC NX 456 M634 1991 Book