Main entry:

Collins, Jim, 1953-

Title & Author:

Architectures of excess : cultural life in the information age / Jim Collins.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1995.

Description:

236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.
Introduction: After the End of Early Postmodernism: The Pragmatics of Excess. Of Cyperpunk Cowboys and Digital Opera Queens. Popular Archivization and the Dispersal of Taste-making -- 1. Home, Home on the Array. Cultural Geography and Ethnographic Mapping, or chacun a son theme park. Taking Time: English Music and Afro-Baroque Blues. Real Estate is Not Reality: Figurative Mapping and Speculative Subjectivity -- 2. Appropriating Like Crazy: From Pop Art to Meta-Pop. Mickey is Taken to the Museum, Cindy Goes to the Movies. We Won't Play Other to Your Culture -- 3. When the Legend Becomes Hyperconscious, Print the ... Genre Films/Genre Theories: Narrative 'Action' in the Age of Total Recall. And the Only Words That Came to Mind Were "The New Sincerity" -- 4. Retro-Modernism: Taste Cartographies in the Nineties -- 5. Authority, Partiality, Pedagogy. Vissi d'arte, vissi de carpeting: Beyond Holistic Value Theory. Two Autonomous Film Cultures: Authorizing Authorship. Toward a Pedagogy of Partiality.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415907055 (cloth)
9780415907057 (cloth)
0415907063 (paper)
9780415907064 (paper)

Subject:

Postmodernism.
Popular culture.
Technology and the arts.
Popular Culture
Postmodernisme.
Culture populaire.
Technologie et arts.
popular culture.
Künste
Massenkultur
Technologie
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Art et technologie.
Arts Postmodernism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 189692
Call No.: ID NX456.5.P66.C64; ID:95-B2046
Status: Available