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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nigel Wheale |
| ISBN: | 0415077761 9780415077767 0415126118 9780415126113 |
| OCLC Number: | 31514740 |
| Description: | xvii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. Postmodernism: a new representation? Paradigms of the postmodern -- Modernism and its consequences: continuity or break? -- Postmodernism: from elite to mass culture? -- Conclusion: resisting the postmodern -- Part II. Essays on postmodernism. One: Popular culture. Introduction -- Popular music and postmodern theory -- Recognizing a "human- Thing": cyborgs, robots and replicants in Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" -- Two: Architecture and visual arts. Introduction -- Melancholy meanings: architecture, postmodernity and philosophy -- "The World is Indeed a Fabluous Tale": Yve Lomax-a practice around philosophy -- Televising Hell: Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway's "TV Dante" -- Three: Literature. Introduction -- A new subjectivity? John Ashbery's "Three poems" -- Reading "The Satanic Verses" -- Four: The real and the true: documentary film. The totalizing quest of meaning. |
| Series Title: | Critical readers in theory and practice. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Nigel Wheale. |
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