Modernist Cultural Studies
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- ISBN 9780813041704
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2012
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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For many scholars, cultural studies is viewed as a product of post modern criticism and as the antithesis of modernism. In this brilliant work, Catherine Driscoll argues persuasively that we must view what we call cultural studies as a direct continuation of the innovations and concerns of modernism and the modernists.
In making her case, Driscoll provides a fresh take on arguments--some seemingly unresolvable--that pivot on modernism's desire for novelty. Defining modernity as a critical attitude rather than a time period, she describes the many things these ostensibly different fields of inquiry have in common and reveals why cultural studies must be viewed as a fundamentally modernist project.
Casting a wide net across the shared interests of modernism and cultural studies, including cinema, fiction, fashion, art, and popular music, Driscoll explores such themes as love and work, adolescence and everyday life, the significance of the everyday, the popular as a field of power, and the importance of representation to identity and experience in modernity.
Catherine Driscoll is chair of gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney.
