Modernism, Inc - Body, Memory, Capital

Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory. Modernism, Inc. provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture.Organized around the idea of "incorporation" -- embodiment, repressed memory, and advanced capitalism -- Modernism, Inc. covers a wide range of topics: Josephine Baker's "hot house style"; the president's penis in American political life; myth-making and the Hoover Dam; trauma, poetics, and the Armenian genocide; feminist kitsch and the recuperation of North America's "Great Lady painters"; Gertrude Stein and Jewish Social Science; the Reno Divorce Factory and the production of gender; Andy Razaf and Black Bolshevism. Collectively, the essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution, or extremity, but of haunting.Modernism, Inc. looks at our ghosts, and at the unspeakable secrets of modernity from which they're derived.

Summary

An examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Foner, Jani Scandura
• Assisted by: Jani Scandura (Editor), Michael Thurston (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2000
• EAN: 9780814781371
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-8137-1
• No. of pages: 321
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Series: Cultural Front (Paperback); Cultural Front
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories