British Writers and the Media, 1930-45

ISBN-13: 9780333638965 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 284 str.

Keith Williams

Opis

Richly informative about a host of writers from Auden to Priestley, and theoretically informed, this wide-ranging new study demonstrates that the 1930s, remembered usually for uncomplicated political engagement, can rather be seen as initiating the key elements of postmodernism, developing the individual's sense of elsewhere' through new technology of representation and propaganda. Keith Williams analyses the relationship between the leftist writers of the decade and the mass-media, showing how newspapers, radio and film were treated in their writing and how they radically reshaped its forms, assumptions and imagery.

Spis treści

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Obituaries of History and the Thirties Sublime - A Twisted Skein: The Media Background - Refractions: The Media as Subject-Matter - Responses: The Mass-Media as Formal Influence - Involvements: Writing for the Mass-Media - Notes - Index