Modern Times Reflections on a Century of English Modernity

Modern Times is about the emergence of new cultural forms and the experience of modernity over the last hundred years. Its focus is on what Marshall Berman has called 'the modernism of the streets' - the perils and possibilities of modern metropolitan life. The contributions emphasise the instability of modern existence and the complex influence of psychic formation - of fantasy, envy and denial - for our understanding of twentieth-century social and cultural transformations. Among the themes the book deals with in greater depth are the utopian in popular cinema, the invention of British music, 'camp' as transgressive aesthetic form, migration and the black metropolis, the allure of the city, and the widespread fascination and anxiety about the poor, the hooligan, the new woman, sexual knowledge and department store shopping. This book will be of critical interest to those studying and teaching in the fields of cultural history and theory.Nava, Mica is the author of 'Modern Times Reflections on a Century of English Modernity' with ISBN 9780415069328 and ISBN 0415069327.