Popular Modernism and Its Legacies From Pop Literature to Video Games [Hardcover]

Popular Modernism and Its Legaciesreconfigures modernist studies to investigate how modernist concepts, figures, and aesthetics continue to play essential--though often undetected--roles across an array of contemporary works, genres, and mediums.

Featuring both established and emerging scholars, each of the book's three sections offers a distinct perspective on popular modernism. The first section considers popular modernism in periods historically associated with the movement, discovering hidden connections between traditional forms of modernist literature and popular culture. The second section traces modernist genealogies from the past to the contemporary era, ultimately revealing that immensely popular contemporary works, artists, and genres continue to engage and thereby renew modernist aesthetics and values. The final section moves into the 21st century, discovering how popular works invoke modernist techniques, texts, and artists to explore social and existential quandaries in the contemporary world.

Concluding with an afterword from noted scholar Faye Hammill,Popular Modernism and Its Legaciesreshapes the study of modernism and provides new perspectives on important works at the center of our cultural imagination.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction
Of Titanics, Wars, Downturns, and Downtons: Popular Modernism and Its Legacies
Scott Ortolano, Florida SouthWestern State College, USA

Section I: New Visions of Popular Modernism
1GentryModernism: Cultural Connoisseurship and Midcentury Masculinity, 1951-57
Marsha Bryant, University of Florida, USA
2Modernism, Operetta and Ruritania: Ivor Novello'sGlamorous Night
Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin, Ireland
3Fine Art on the Airwaves: Radio Drama and Modern(ist) Mass Culture
Adam Nemmers, Texas Christian University, USA
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