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Remapping The Humanities : Identity, Community, Memory, (post)modernity

On The Museum’s Ruins

Postmodern Hollywood : What’s New In Film And Why It Makes Us Feel So Strange

  • Postmodern Hollywood : What's New In Film And Why It  Makes Us Feel So Strange
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    M. Keith Booker
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    Book, Praeger, 2007
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    Booker’s work contains detailed discussions of a wide variety of American films — including classics like Sullivan’s Travels and The Last Picture Show, and recent successes such as Scream, Natural Born Killers, Memento, Moulin Rouge, and Fight Club — noting how these films participate in the phenomenon of postmodernism, and how they have helped to shape its current form. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN1995 .B613 2007  AVAILABLE

Situating The Self : Gender, Community, And Postmodernism In Contemporary Ethics

An Introduction To Visual Culture

Modern Art : A Critical Introduction

Social Theory And Postcommunism

  • Social Theory And Postcommunism
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    William Outhwaite and Larry Ray
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    Book, Blackwell, 2005
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    Analyzes the implications of the fall of communism on social theory Discusses alternative ideas of social organizations other than capitalism, in the wake of the collapse of communism Covers state/civil society, globalization, the future of ?modernity,? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HM449 .O9 2005  AVAILABLE

Themes In Contemporary Art

Probing Popular Culture On And Off The Internet

  • Probing Popular Culture On And Off The Internet
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    Marshall Fishwick
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    Book, Haworth Press, 2004
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    Probing Popular Culture focuses on: historical pioneers?from Socrates to Walt Whitman and Walt Disney-who pondered and studied the phenomenon known as “popular culture” culture frenzies?why Americans have a tendency toward trends, fads, and frenzies the emergence of America as a “super” popular culture with current predominance in world media, movies, clothing, music, and food the loss of old traditions and the invention of new ones “hype”?its definition, its origin, and its negative effect on the human race the “gaps” that have developed all over the world?mainly between the United States and other countries?because of the introduction of the Information Age in popular culture and much more Who will arbitrate, regulate, and modify our flow of information? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  E169.12 .F643 2004  AVAILABLE

The Next Reformation : Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity

The Cambridge Companion To Postmodernism

The Culture Industry : Selected Essays On Mass Culture

No More Rules : Graphic Design And Postmodernism

  • No More Rules : Graphic Design And Postmodernism
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    Rick Poynor
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    Book, Yale University Press, 2003
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    Design critic Rick Poynor tells this story in detail, breaking down a broad, multifaceted field of graphic design activity into key developments and themes: the origins of postmodern design; This generously illustrated book is a vital reference for design professionals and educators as well as for students of graphic design, image-making, advertising, and the visual arts. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NC998.45.P67 P69 2003  AVAILABLE

Mona Lisa’s Moustache : Making Sense Of A Dissolving World

Digital Currents : Art In The Electronic Age

  • Digital Currents : Art In The Electronic Age
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    Margot Lovejoy
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    Book, 3rd expanded ed, Routledge, 2004
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    Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Just as the rise of photographic techniques in the mid 1800s shattered traditional views about representation, so too have contemporary electronic tools catalyzed new perspectives on art, affecting the way artists see, think, and work, and the ways in which their productions are distributed and communicated. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NX180.M3 L68 2004  AVAILABLE