From cinema and radio broadcasting to the growth of new communication technologies, Modernism and Its Media is the first critical guide to key issues and debates on the changing media contexts of modernist writing. Topics covered include: * Key thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Marshall McLuhan * Modernist film - from Eisenstein to the French New Wave cinema * Modernism and mass culture * The history of modernist media and communication technologies * Modernism's legacies for contemporary new media art With case studies covering such topics as the film writings of Joyce, Woolf and Eliot, popular art and kitsch, the Frankfurt School and the rise of the gramophone, this is an essential guide for students and scholars researching the relationship between modernism and mass media.

Covering key media theorists, broadcasting, cinema, and new communication technologies, this is the first critical guide to key issues and debates in the study of modernism and its media contexts.

About the Author
Chris Forster is Assistant Professor of 20th Century British Literature and Culture at Syracuse University, USA.


Book Information
ISBN 9781350033146
Author Chris Forster
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 340g