Contemporary Drift : : Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present / / Theodore Martin.
What does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet often unnoticed, pa...
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Martin, Theodore, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Contemporary Drift : Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present / Theodore Martin. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (272 p.) : 23 b&w photographs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Literature Now Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theses on the Concept of the Contemporary -- Chapter One. Decade: Period Pieces -- Chapter Two. Revival: Situating Noir -- Chapter Three. Waiting: Mysterious Circumstances -- Chapter Four. Weather: Western Climes -- Chapter Five. Survival: Work and Plague -- Conclusion: How to Historicize the Present -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet often unnoticed, part of the literature and film of our moment. In Contemporary Drift, Theodore Martin argues that the contemporary is not just a historical period but also a conceptual problem, and he claims that contemporary genre fiction offers a much-needed resource for resolving that problem.Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical account of contemporary literature and film. Emphasizing both the difficulty and the necessity of historicizing the contemporary, the book explores how recent works of fiction depict life in an age of global capitalism, postindustrialism, and climate change. Through new histories of the novel of manners, film noir, the Western, detective fiction, and the postapocalyptic novel, Martin shows how the problem of the contemporary preoccupies a wide range of novelists and filmmakers, including Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, Vikram Chandra, China Miéville, Kelly Reichardt, and the Coen brothers. Martin argues that genre provides these artists with a formal strategy for understanding both the content and the concept of the contemporary. Genre writing, with its mix of old and new, brings to light the complicated process by which we make sense of our present and determine what belongs to our time. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) American fiction 20th century History and criticism. American fiction 21st century History and criticism. Contemporary, The, in literature. Contemporary, The, in motion pictures. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110543308 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017 9783110540550 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE ENGLISH 2017 9783110625264 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2017 9783110548198 ZDB-23-DKU print 9780231181921 https://doi.org/10.7312/mart18192 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231543897 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231543897/original |
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