Popular Modernism and Its Legacies: From Pop Literature to Video Games

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Of Titanics, wars, downturns, and Downtons: Popular modernism and its
Part 1: New Visions of Popular Modernism
	1. Gentry modernism: Cultural connoisseurship and midcentury masculinity, 1951–1957
	2. Modernism, operetta, and Ruritania: Ivor Novello’s Glamorous Night
	3. Fine art on the airwaves: Radio drama and modern(ist)mass culture
	4. “I’m gonna be somebody,” 1930: Gangsters and modernist celebrity
	5. Charlie Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, and the redemption of the city
Part 2: Legacies of Popular Modernism
	6. “Catch a wave”: Surf noir and modernist nostalgia
	7. Alien pleasures: Modernism/hybridity/science fiction
	8. Josephine Baker’s contemporary afterlives: Black female identity, modernist performance, and popular legacies of the Jazz Age
	9. A hitchhiker’s guide to modernism: The futuristic Fordisms of Aldous Huxley, Brian O’Nolan, and Douglas Adams
Part 3: Resonances of Popular Modernism in the Twenty-First Century
	10. Smokescreens to smokestacks: True Detective and the American sublime
	11. Of modernist second acts and African-American lives: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Wire, and the struggle against lockdown
	12. Don Draper’s identity crisis and Mad Men’s modernist masculinity
	13. A century of reading time: From modernist novels to contemporary comics
	14. Hemingway’s console: Memory and ethics in the modernist video game
Afterword
Notes on contributors
Index