| Description |
xi, 209 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Is This a Postmodern World? -- Sidebar 1: Paradigm History -- 2. How Do We Create a Sense of Realism? Or Do We Just Discover It? -- 3. Classic Realist Formulas in Action: Film -- Sidebar 2: The Classic or Naive Realist Formula -- Sidebar 3: Breaking Free of the Classic Realist Formula -- 4. Go To Citizen Kane to Find Twentieth-century Modernism ... On the Edge of Postmodernity -- 5. Moving Across the Profound Surface of a Postmodern Life -- Sidebar 4: Is Seinfeld Postmodern? -- 6. Yes There Is a Postmodern Political Struggle -- 7. Postmodernity and the Market -- 8. Postmodernity's War with Science? -- Sidebar 5: Do Our Categories Fit? -- 9. Meditating on Postmodern Ethics and Religion -- 10. Facing the Monsters: History in the Hands of Postmodernists -- 11. Enacting the Postmodern: The Primer's Glossary of Cultural Studies |
| Summary |
A Primer of Post-modernity introduces the general reader to an emerging "postmodern" world order by giving us "just the facts" through contemporary cultural lenses. Using TV shows, political talk shows, radio call-in shows, and popular film as points of reference, the focus is not on postmodernism as a movement in art, architecture, and literature, but on post-modernity as the most wide-ranging and provocative change in how we look at the world since the Enlightenment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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Postmodernism.
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Social change.
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| LC no. |
97007779 |
| ISBN |
1577180607 (alk. paper) |
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1577180615 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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